Robert J. Nemiroff

[4] Nemiroff's research interests include gamma-ray bursts, gravitational lensing, sky monitoring, and cosmology.

Among other findings, his research on gamma-ray bursts: In 1999 Nemiroff and colleague Bruce Rafert published a paper showing that continuous astronomical sky monitors could soon become a reality.

[12] By the mid-2000s, most major astronomical observatories deployed CONCAM or CONCAM-like devices together capable of monitoring most of the night sky most of the time.

[22] Its home page typically receives over one million hits per day;[23] APOD has served over one billion images [24] since its start.

[31] Nemiroff and Bonnell were awarded the inaugural International Astronomical Union (IAU) Astronomy Outreach Prize [32] in 2022.