2018 JPL Outstanding Postdoctoral Research Awards

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Ceremonies held in August honored five postdoctoral scholars for their outstanding research efforts at JPL.

 

The researchers won a competition at the annual Postdoctoral Research Day. The day showcased the outstanding work of postdoctoral scholars in the fields of Earth science, astrophysics and space science, planetary science and life detection, and technology, instrumentation and engineering.

 

The winners delivered lectures on their work at the August 29th awards ceremony and were presented with commemorative plaques by JPL Chief Scientist, Mark Simons.

 

Of the posters presented, five were selected by a panel of judges. The awardees are:

  • Daniel Lenz for his work on New Large-Scale Maps of the Cosmic Infrared Background
  • Christopher Milliner for his work on Weighing Hurricane Harvey’s Floodwaters using GPS data
  • Hector Torres Gutierrez for his work on A New Vision of Air-Sea Interactions Driven by Submesoscale Motions and Winds
  • Elena Amador for her work on New Tools for Detecting Carbonate-Bearing Surfaces on Mars: Possible Detections of Low-Abundance Carbonate in Noachian-aged Crust
  • Siddharth Krishnamoorthy for his work on Infrasound as a Geophysical Probe for Venus

 

The annual Postdoctoral Research Day showcases the outstanding work of postdoctoral scholars in the fields of Earth science, astrophysics and space science, planetary science and life detection, and technology, instrumentation and engineering.

 

To learn more about JPL's postdoctoral programs, please visit https://postdocs.jpl.nasa.gov.