Jeffrey Pomerantz

Jeffrey Pomerantz is a Digital Technologies Development Librarian at the Harvard / Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, where he works with the team that maintains the Astrophysics Data System and SciX digital libraries, ensuring that these collections continue to be a research cornerstone for scholars in the fields of astronomy, Earth science, heliophysics, physics, and planetary science.

Pomerantz is also co-founder of the educational technology company Proximal Design Labs. Proximal makes educationally rigorous, curriculum-aligned, and engaging experiential learning accessible for all learners.

He is an Information Scientist with more than 25 years of experience in studying and evaluating information services and educational technologies in a variety of contexts. Prior to joining the CfA, Pomerantz was an Associate Professor of Practice and the Online Program Coordinator at the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons University, a Senior Researcher with the EDUCAUSE Center for Analysis and Research (ECAR), and a tenured Associate Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for over a decade.