Dr. Joseph E. Pesce, Ph.D.

Joseph E. Pesce founded Omnis, Inc. and served as its CEO and President until 2016. He was directly responsible for establishing the strategic vision of Omnis in all of its business areas and guiding its execution. He was also directly involved on a “hands on” basis with some of the most complex research and analytical initiatives of the firm.

Dr. Pesce is passionate about education activities, and is an expert instructor and designer of educational programs and courses. He is a determined advocate for leadership, science literacy critical thinking, and problem solving.

Joe has over 30 years of extensive experience in science, technology, space & space policy, and education, within academia, the private sector, and the U. S. Government.

An astrophysicist, he is a part-time Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. His topic of research is the large-scale environments of Active Galactic Nuclei. He has held positions at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, MD and at the Pennsylvania State University in State College, PA. Dr. Pesce has used ground-based telescopes all over the world (USA, Chile, Italy, the Canary Islands, and Australia), as well as space-based ones, and is the author of over 60 articles in peer-reviewed astronomical journals.

He is a Visiting Professor of the University of Colorado, Boulder, College of Arts & Sciences; serves on the Board of Advisors for The Presidents Leadership Class, University of Colorado, Boulder; is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society; a Fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society; a member of Peterhouse, Cambridge; the American Astronomical Society; the American Association for the Advancement of Science; Sigma Pi Sigma; and the Cosmos Club (Washington DC). He was a recipient of the prestigious Isaac Newton Studentship at Cambridge University; a Presidents Leadership Scholar at the University of Colorado, Boulder; and served on the Board of Directors of the Animal Behavior Management Alliance (ABMA).

Dr. Pesce earned his Ph.D., M.Phil., and M.Sc. in Astrophysics from Cambridge University (Peterhouse) and the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste, Italy, and his B.A. (cum laude and with Honors) in Physics from the University of Colorado at Boulder.