Senior Research Scientists

Full-time Senior Research Scientists.  Additionally, information on former SRS members is provided for historical purposes.

 
 
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Ph.D. Date - 1979
Appointment Date - 06/01
Nondestructive Evaluation and Characterization
Bar-Cohen, Yoseph
Ph.D. Date - 1984
Appointment Date - 07/98
Theory & Application of Adaptive Control Systems
Bayard, David S.
Ph.D. Date - 1979
Appointment Date - 06/06
IR Astronomy and Astrophysics
Beichman, Charles
Ph.D. Date - 1987
Appointment Date - 02/09
Condensed Matter Physics
Bell, L. Douglas
Ph.D. Date - 1978
Appointment Date - 04/21
Planetary Interiors and Geodesy
Bills, Bruce
Ph.D. Date - 1994
Appointment Date - 06/06
Experimental Astrophysics and Cosmology
Bock, James
Ph.D. Date - 1999
Appointment Date - 03/22
Uncertainty Quantification for Large Scale Systems
Braverman, Amy
Brown, Shannon
Ph.D. Date - 2003
Appointment Date - 04/24
Design, development, and calibration of passive radiometers for Earth and planetary science missions
Brown, Shannon
Ph.D. Date - 1983
Appointment Date - 06/06
Planetary Astronomy
Buratti, Bonnie
Ph.D. Date - 1988
Appointment Date - 03/15
Robotics, Kinematics, Mechanical Systems and Control
Burdick, Joel W. (1)
C
Ph.D. Date - 2001
Appointment Date - 03/22
Planetary Interiors and Geophysics
Castillo-Rogez, Julie
Ph.D. Date - 2003
Appointment Date - 04/23
Cosmology and Intensity Mapping
Tzu-Ching Chang
Ph.D. Date - 1999
Appointment Date - 03/15
THz Technology for Space and Earth Science
Chattopadhyay, Goutam
Ph.D. Date - 1998
Appointment Date - 12/13
Solar System Dynamics
Chesley, Steven
Ph.D. Date - 1990
Appointment Date - 11/07
Autonomous Space Systems
Chien, Steve
Chung, Soon-Jo
Ph.D. Date - 2007
Appointment Date - 6/22
Robotics and Spacecraft Autonomy
Chung, Soon-Jo
Ph.D. Date - 1970
Appointment Date - 03/04
Life Detection Program
Coleman, Max L.
Ph.D. Date - 2003
Appointment Date - 04/23
Submillimeter Wave Radar Science and Technology
Ken B. Cooper
Ph.D. Date - 1989
Appointment Date - 04/06
Gravitational Wave Science
Cutler, Curt
D
Ph.D. Date - 1993
Appointment Date - 12/13
Superconducting Detectors
Day, Peter
Ph.D. Date - 1973
Appointment Date - 10/06
Experiments, instrumentation, and simulations in Fluid Dynamics, mixing and combustion; and remote sensing
Dimotakis, Paul (1)
Ph.D. Date - 1977
Appointment Date - 11/07
Imaging Spectroradiometry and Polarimetry
Diner, David
Ph.D. Date - 1978
Appointment Date - 08/99
Digital Communication, Information and Coding Theory
Divsalar, Dariush
Ph.D. Date - 1991
Appointment Date 04/24
Earthquakes and Land Surface Processes
Andrea Donnellan
Ph.D. Date - 2001
Appointment Date 04/24
Data-oriented cosmologist
Olivier Dore
Ph.D. Date - 1993
Appointment Date - 04/23
Atmospheric Spectroscopy
Brian Drouin
E
Ph.D. Date - 1979
Appointment Date - 09/10
Infrared Astronomy and Galaxy Clusters
Eisenhardt, Peter
Ph.D. Date - 1991
Appointment Date - 04/23
Superconducting Detectors
Pierre Echternach
F
Ph.D. Date - 1989
Appointment Date - 04/21
Earth Surface Deformation and Topography
Fielding, Eric
Ph.D. Date - 1988
Appointment Date - 12/13
Solid State Energy Conversion
Fleurial, Jean-Pierre
Ph.D. Date - 1980
Appointment Date - 05/94
Physical Oceanography
Fu, Lee-Lueng
Ph.D. Date - 1989
Appointment Date - 04/23
Ocean Data Assimilation, Sea Level Variability and Ocean Circulation
Ichiro Fukumori
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Ph.D. Date - 1993
Appointment Date - 09/12
Millimeter-wave Science Instruments
Gaier, Todd
Ph.D. Date - 1981
Appointment Date - 11/06
Plasma Devices, Communications
Goebel, Dan
Ph.D. Date - 1979
Appointment Date - 06/06
Millimeter/Submillimeter Astronomy
Goldsmith, Paul F.
Ph.D. Date - 1981
Appointment Date - 06/06
Planetary Geology
Golombek, Matthew
Ph.D. Date - 1987
Appointment Date - 01/03
CMB Research
Gorski, Kris
Ph.D. Date - 2003
Appointment Date - 06/06
Environmental Imaging Spectroscopy
Green, Robert O.
Ph.D. Date - 1982
Appointment Date - 09/10
Geodesy
Gross, Richard
Ph.D. Date - 1987
Appointment Date - 04/21
Physics and Chemistry of Ices & Evolution of Organic Matter
Gudipati, Murthy
Ph.D. Date - 1985
Appointment Date - 06/00
Semiconductor Device Research
Gunapala, Sarath
H
Ph.D. Date - 1994
Appointment Date - 02/09
Software Reliability, Runtime Verification
Havelund, Klaus
Ph.D. Date - 1985
Appointment Date - 03/15
Radar Interferomety
Hensley, Scott
Hoenk, Michael
Ph.D. Date - 1990
Appointment Date - 03/22
Device Physicist and Detector Expert
Hoenk, Michael
Ph.D. Date - 2008
Appointment Date - 03/22
Alloy Development and Manufacturing and Metal Matric Composites
Hofmann, Douglas
Ph.D. Date - 1989
Appointment Date - 03/15
Earth Science with the Thermal Infrared Techniques
Hook, Simon
J
Ph.D. Date - 1972
Appointment Date - 03/15
Solar System Dynamics
Jacobson, Robert
Ph.D. Date - 1986
Appointment Date - 02/09
Multibody System Dynamics
Jain, Abhinandan
Ph.D. Date - 1996
Appointment Date - 04/23
Earth Atmospheric Physics; Exoplanets
Jonathan Jiang
Ph.D. Date - 1991
Appointment Date - 04/21
Application of Radar Remote Sensing of the Earth
Jones, Cathleen
K
Ph.D. Date - 1988
Appointment Date - 03/15
Condensed Matter Physics: Superconductivity; Detectors & Mixers: Hot Electron Bolometer
Karasik, Boris
L
Ph.D. Date - 1983
Appointment Date - 09/12
Cosmology, CMB
Lawrence, Charles
Ph.D. Date - 1983
Appointment Date - 06/06
Superconducting Devices
LeDuc, Henry
Ph.D. Date - 1994
Appointment Date - 04/21
Observations and Assimilation in Physical Oceanography
Lee, Tony
Ph.D. Date - 1994
Appointment Date - 06/22
Planetary Geochemistry & Astrobiology
Leshin, Laurie
Ph.D. Date - 2007
Appointment Date - 04/23
Carbon Cycle Science
Junjie Liu
Ph.D. Date - 1995
Appointment Date - 04/23
Microwave Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Composition
Nathaniel Livesey
Ph.D. Date - 1986
Appointment Date - 02/09
Planetary Geology and Volcanology
Lopes, Rosaly
Lunine, Jonathan
Ph.D. Date - 1985
Appointment Date - 09/24
Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems, The Nature of Planetary Interiors and Atmospheres
Lunine, Jonathan
M
Ph.D. Date - 1989
Appointment Date - 03/15
Ionospheric and Atmospheric Remote Sensing
Mannucci, Anthony
Matsko, Andrey
Ph.D. Date - 1997
Appointment Date 04/24
Frequency, Timing, and Photonic Instruments
Andrey Matsko
Ph.D. Date - 1989
Appointment Date - 06/01
Computer vision in the field of robotics
Matthies, Larry
Ph.D. Date - 2006
Appointment Date - 09/21
Exoplanet Discovery and Science
Mawet, Dimitri
Ph.D. Date - 1990
Appointment Date - 09/10
Terahertz Technology Instruments
Mehdi, Imran
Ph.D. Date - 1993
Appointment Date - 04/23
Astrophysics and Space Sciences
Margaret Meixner
Ph.D. Date - 1999
Appointment Date - 03/22
Applied Plasma Physics/Electric Propulsion, Physics-based Modeling and Numerical Simulations
Charles E. Miller
Ph.D. Date - 1991
Appointment Date 04/24
Greenhouse Gas Spectroscopy and Remote Sensing
Charles E. Miller
N
Ph.D. Date - 1991
Appointment Date - 02/09
Remote Sensing
Nghiem, Son
Ph.D. Date - 1990
Appointment Date - 09/12
Optoelectronic Materials/Devices
Nikzad, Shouleh
O
Ph.D. Date - 1975
Appointment Date - 06/95
Atmospheres of the Outer Planets
Orton, Glenn S.
P
Ph.D. Date - 1994
Appointment Date - 11/07
Planetary Geophysics
Pappalardo, Robert
Ph.D. Date - 2007
Appointment Date - 04/23
Planetary Ephemeris Development and Gravity Field Investigation
Ryan Park
Pearson, John
Ph.D. Date - 1995
Appointment Date - 03/22
Physics of Non-Rigid Molecules
Pearson, John
Ph.D. Date - 1986
Appointment Date - 03/15
Astrophysics
Pellegrino, Sergio (1)
Ph.D. Date - 1995
Appointment Date - 03/22
Atmospheric Chemistry
Percival, Carl
Ph.D. Date - 1991
Appointment Date - 04/16
Planetary Geology
Plaut, Jeffrey J.
Polk, James E.
 
Appointment Date - 04/24
Fundamental and mission-development research in plasma propulsion physics
Polk, James E.
Ph.D. Date - 1983
Appointment Date - 09/12
Atomic Clocks, Fundamental Physics
Prestage, John
R
Ph.D. Date - 2008
Appointment Date - 03/22
Integrated Microsensors and Microsystems
Rais-Zadeh, Mina
Ph.D. Date - 1989
Appointment Date - 04/21
Planetary Geophysics
Raymond, Carol
Ph.D. Date - 1999
Appointment Date - 04/16
Astrophysics and Dark Matter Cosmology
Rhodes, Jason
Ph.D. Date - 1991
Appointment Date - 06/06
Radar Interferometry, Glaciology
Rignot, Eric
Ph.D. Date - 1989
Appointment Date - 04/16
Satellite Radar Interferometry
Rosen, Paul A.
S
Ph.D. Date - 1988
Appointment Date - 03/22
Carbon and Ecosystem Science
Saatchi, Sassan
Ph.D. Date - 1985
Appointment Date - 04/24
Multi-waveband imaging and spectroscopy of dying Sun-like stars
Sahai, Raghvendra
Ph.D. Date - 1980
Appointment Date - 07/96
Chemical Kinetics/Atmospheric Science
Sander, Stanley P.
Ph.D. Date - 1993
Appointment Date - 04/16
Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Composition
Santee, Michelle
Ph.D. Date - 1982
Appointment Date - 03/15
Ecosystems and Carbon Cycle Science
Schimel, David
Ph.D. Date - 2001
Appointment Date - 03/17
Climate Science
Schneider, Tapio (1)
Ph.D. Date - 1984
Appointment Date - 06/01
Infrared/Millimeter Astrophysics
Serabyn, Eugene
Ph.D. Date - 1988
Appointment Date - 03/22
Coastal Ecosystems
Simard, Marc
Ph.D. Date - 1990
Appointment Date - 12/13
Planetary Geophysics
Smrekar, Suzanne
Ph.D. Date - 1992
Appointment Date - 04/21
Thermal and Dynamical Studies of Planetary Rings
Spilker, Linda
Ph.D. Date - 1991
Appointment Date - 04/21
Protoplanetary and Debris Disks, Exoplanets, and Star Formation
Stapelfeldt, Karl
Ph.D. Date - 1977
Appointment Date - 09/12
Radiative Transfer, Cloud Physics & Climate
Stephens, Graeme
Ph.D. Date - 1999
Appointment Date - 04/16
Extragalatic Astrophysics
Stern, Daniel
Ph.D. Date - 1996
Appointment Date - 11/07
Adaptive and Evolvable Hardware
Stoica, Adrian
Ph.D. Date - 1996
Appointment Date - 03/22
Adaptive and Evolvable Hardware
Swain, Mark
T
Ph.D. Date - 2000
Appointment Date - 03/22
Earth Atmosphere, Planetary Boundary Layer and Cloud dynamics
Teixeira, Joao
Ph.D. Date - 2008
Appointment Date - 03/22
Technologist
Thompson, David R.
Ph.D. Date - 1986
Appointment Date - 09/12
Semiconductor Devices/Physics
Ting, David
Ph.D. Date - 1984
Appointment Date - 06/06
Atmospheric Remote Sensing
Toon, Geoffrey
Ph.D. Date - 1972
Appointment Date - 07/97
Space astronomy
Trauger, John T.
 
 
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Ph.D. Date - 2002
Appointment Date - 04/21
Gravitational Astrophysics
Vallisneri, Michele
Ph.D. Date - 1985
Appointment Date - 11/07
Space Plasma Physics
Velli, Marco
Ph.D. Date - 1982
Appointment Date - 02/09
Molecular Microbial Diversity
Venkateswaran, Kasthuri
W
Ph.D. Date - 1992
Appointment Date - 11/07
Climate dynamics and modeling
Waliser, Duane
Ph.D. Date - 1977
Appointment Date - 05/90
Laser Spectroscopy/Atmospheric Chemistry
Webster, Christopher R.
Ph.D. Date - 1993
Appointment Date - 04/23
Astrochemistry
Karen Willacy
Ph.D. Date - 1969
Appointment Date - 02/09
Solar System Dynamics
Williams, James
Ph.D. Date - 2004
Appointment Date 04/24
Sea level rise and ocean changes under a warming climate.
Josh Willis
Y
Ph.D. Date - 1988
Appointment Date - 03/15
Quantum Sensors, Optical Micro-Resonators
Nan Yu
Ph.D. Date - 1991
Appointment Date - 12/13
Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing
Yueh, Simon H.
Ph.D. Date - 1974
Appointment Date - 03/15
Planetary Atmospheres; Planetary Science
Yung, Yuk (1)
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Ph.D. Date - 1974
Appointment Date - 09/93
Atmospheric Dynamics
Zurek, Richard W.

(1) joint JPL/Caltech appointment