SRS List

Eligibility is established by demonstrated research achievement comparable to that required for appointment as a professor at a leading university. This appointment is limited to people whose research is of the highest quality and significance, who have had a major impact on their field and who are widely recognized in the scientific community for their accomplishments. In addition to research ability, as established by peer review, the appointment also takes into account the individual’s institutional contribution to JPL. Additional information on the SRS program and selection process is available here.

Nomination for promotion to Senior Research Scientist is required for all appointments.

The technical Division Managers submit formal nominations to the JPL Chief Scientist. Additionally, current JPL Senior Research Scientists may make recommendations directly to the appropriate Technical Division Managers.

NOTE: Initiated by Rochus "Robbie" Vogt, Moustafa T. Chahine and Bruce Murray were two of the first SRS and they were appointed in 1978.

Below is a list of current Senior Research Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Additionally, information on former SRS members is provided for historical purposes.

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Ajello, Joseph M. Ph.D. Date - 1969 Appointment Date - 07/96 Ultraviolet Emission Spectroscopy	Armstrong, John W. Ph.D. Date - 1975 Appointment Date - 06/00 Gravitational Wave and Radio Astronomy
B
Bar-Cohen, Yoseph Ph.D. Date - 1979 Appointment Date - 06/01 Nondestructive Evaluation and Characterization	Bayard, David S. Ph.D. Date - 1984 Appointment Date - 07/98 Theory & Application of Adaptive Control Systems
Beichman, Charles Ph.D. Date - 1979 Appointment Date - 06/06 IR Astronomy and Astrophysics	Bell, L. Douglas Ph.D. Date - 1987 Appointment Date - 02/09 Condensed Matter Physics
Bellan, Josette Ph.D. Date - 1974 Appointment Date - 07/98 Multiphase Flows Dynamics & Combustion	Bock, James Ph.D. Date - 1994 Appointment Date - 06/06 Experimental Astrophysics and Cosmology
Brown, Linda Ph.D. Date - 1976 Appointment Date - 02/09 Atmospheric Infrared Laboratory Spectroscopy	Buratti, Bonnie Ph.D. Date - 1983 Appointment Date - 06/06 Planetary Astronomy
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Carlson, Robert Ph.D. Date - 1970 Appointment Date - 11/07 Planetary Science	Chien, Steve Ph.D. Date - 1990 Appointment Date - 11/07 Autonomous Space Systems
Chutjian, Ara Ph.D. Date - 1966 Appointment Date - 05/90 Atom and Ion Scattering	Coleman, Max L. Ph.D. Date - 1970 Appointment Date - 03/04 Life Detection Program
Crisp, David Ph.D. Date - 1984 Appointment Date - 08/99 Atmospheric Physics & Radiation	Cutler, Curt Ph.D. Date - 1989 Appointment Date - 04/06 Gravitational Wave Science
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Dickey, Jean Ph.D. Date - 1976 Appointment Date - 06/07 Planetary Geodesy, Climate	Dimotakis, Paul 1 Ph.D. Date - 1973 Appointment Date - 10/06 Experiments, instrumentation, and simulations in Fluid Dynamics, mixing and combustion; and remote sensing
Diner, David Ph.D. Date - 1977 Appointment Date - 11/07 Imaging Spectroradiometry and Polarimetry	Divsalar, Dariush Ph.D. Date - 1978 Appointment Date - 08/99 Digital Communication, Information and Coding Theory
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Eisenhardt, Peter Ph.D. Date - 1979 Appointment Date - 09/10 Infrared Astronomy and Galaxy Clusters	Elachi, Charles Ph.D. Date - 1971 Appointment Date - 09/81 Radar Remote Sensing Science
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Fu, Lee-Lueng Ph.D. Date - 1980 Appointment Date - 05/94 Physical Oceanography
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Gaier, Todd Ph.D. Date - 1993 Appointment Date - 09/12 Millimeter-wave Science Instruments	Goebel, Daniel Ph.D. Date - 1981 Appointment Date - 11/06 Plasma Devices, Communications
Goldsmith, Paul F. Ph.D. Date - 1979 Appointment Date - 06/06 Millimeter/Submillimeter Astronomy	Golombek, Matthew Ph.D. Date - 1981 Appointment Date - 06/06 Planetary Geology
Gorski, Kris Ph.D. Date - 1987 Appointment Date - 01/03 CMB Research	Green, Robert O. Ph.D. Date - 2003 Appointment Date - 06/06 Environmental Imaging Spectroscopy
Gross, Richard Ph.D. Date - 1982 Appointment Date - 09/10 Geodesy	Grunthaner, Frank J. Ph.D. Date - 1973 Appointment Date - 01/86 Semiconductor Surface Interface Science
Gulkis, Samuel Ph.D. Date - 1965 Appointment Date - 12/80 Planetary Radio Astronomy	Gunapala, Sarath Ph.D. Date - 1985 Appointment Date - 06/00 Semiconductor Device Research
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Hadaegh, Fred Y. Ph.D. Date - 1984 Appointment Date - 07/97 System Identification/Field of Control	Halpern, David Ph.D. Date - 1969 Appointment Date - 08/88 Ocean Sciences
Havelund, Klaus Ph.D. Date - 1994 Appointment Date - 02/09 Software Reliability, Runtime Verification	Holzmann, Gerard J. Ph.D. Date - 1979 Appointment Date - 02/05 Computer Science, Software Reliability
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Imbriale, William A. Ph.D. Date - 1969 Appointment Date - 07/96 Reflector Antennas
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Jain, Abhinandan Ph.D. Date - 1986 Appointment Date - 02/09 Multibody System Dynamics	Janssen, Michael Ph.D. Date - 1972 Appointment Date - 09/10 Radio Astronomy
Johnson, Torrence V. Ph.D. Date - 1970 Appointment Date - 09/81 Planetary Surfaces/Remote Sensing
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Kanik, Isik Ph.D. Date - 1988 Appointment Date - 06/06 Laboratory Spectroscopy	Kliore, Arvydas J. Ph.D. Date - 1962 Appointment Date - 07/87 Spacecraft Radio Science
Kwok, Ron Ph.D. Date - 1980 Appointment Date - 06/00 Remote Sensing of the Ice-Covered Oceans
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Langer, William D. Ph.D. Date - 1968 Appointment Date - 07/97 Astronomy	Lawrence, Charles Ph.D. Date - 1983 Appointment Date - 09/12 Cosmology, CMB
LeDuc, Henry Ph.D. Date - 1983 Appointment Date - 06/06 Superconducting Devices	Liu, W. Timothy Ph.D. Date - 1978 Appointment Date - 09/93 Physical Oceanography/Air-Sea Interactions
Lopes, Rosaly Ph.D. Date - 1986 Appointment Date - 02/09 Planetary Geology and Volcanology
M
Matson, Dennis L. Ph.D. Date - 1972 Appointment Date - 07/86 Planetary science	Matthies, Larry Ph.D. Date - 1989 Appointment Date - 06/01 Computer vision in the field of robotics
McCleese, Daniel J. Ph.D. Date - 1976 Appointment Date - 10/06 Atmospheric Physics	McDermid, I. Stuart Ph.D. Date - 1976 Appointment Date - 07/97 Atmospheric laser spectroscopy
Mehdi, Imran Ph.D. Date - 1990 Appointment Date - 09/10 Terahertz Technology Instruments	Meier, David Ph.D. Date - 1977 Appointment Date - 06/06 Theoretical Astrophysics
Menzies, Robert T. Ph.D. Date - 1970 Appointment Date - 08/88 Laser remote sensing	Milman, Mark H. Ph.D. Date - 1980 Appointment Date - 06/07 Multidisciplinary Analysis and Optimization
Mouroulis, Pantazis Ph.D. Date - 1981 Appointment Date - 06/06 Optics, Optical Engineering
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Nghiem, Son Ph.D. Date - 1991 Appointment Date - 02/09 Remote Sensing	Nikzad, Shouleh Ph.D. Date - 1990 Appointment Date - 09/12 Optoelectronic Materials/Devices
Njoku, Eni Ph.D. Date - 1976 Appointment Date - 06/06 Remote Sensing, Hydrologic Processes
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Orton, Glenn S. Ph.D. Date - 1975 Appointment Date - 06/95 Atmospheres of the Outer Planets
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Papanastassiou, Dimitri Ph.D. Date - 1970 Appointment Date - 11/98 Evolution of Meteorites & Planets	Pappalardo, Robert Ph.D. Date - 1994 Appointment Date - 11/07 Planetary Geophysics
Prestage, John Ph.D. Date - 1983 Appointment Date - 09/12 Atomic Clocks, Fundamental Physics	Prince, Thomas A. 1 Ph.D. Date - 1978 Appointment Date - 10/06 Astrophysics
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Rappaport, Nicole J. Ph.D. Date - 1980 Appointment Date - 07/98 Planetary Ring Dynamics	Readhead, Anthony 1 Ph.D. Date - 1972 Appointment Date - 10/06 Astronomy
Rignot, Eric 2 Ph.D. Date - 1991 Appointment Date - 06/06 Radar Interferometry, Glaciology
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Sander, Stanley P. Ph.D. Date - 1980 Appointment Date - 07/96 Chemical Kinetics/Atmospheric Science	Serabyn, Eugene Ph.D. Date - 1984 Appointment Date - 06/01 Infrared/Millimeter Astrophysics
Siegel, Peter 1 Ph.D. Date - 1983 Appointment Date - 06/06 Terahertz Sensor Technology	Sotin, Christophe Ph.D. Date - 1983 Appointment Date - 11/07 Planetary Geophysics
Stephens, Graeme Ph.D. Date - 1977 Appointment Date - 09/12 Radiative Transfer, Cloud Physics & Climate	Stoica, Adrian Ph.D. Date - 1996 Appointment Date - 11/07 Adaptive and Evolvable Hardware
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Ting, David Ph.D. Date - 1986 Appointment Date - 09/12 Semiconductor Devices/Physics	Toon, Geoffrey Ph.D. Date - 1984 Appointment Date - 06/06 Atmospheric Remote Sensing
Traub, Wesley Ph.D. Date - 1968 Appointment Date - 11/07 Atmospheric Spectroscopy and Exoplanet Detection	Trauger, John T. Ph.D. Date - 1972 Appointment Date - 07/97 Visible/ultraviolet astronomy
Tsurutani, Bruce T. Ph.D. Date - 1972 Appointment Date - 07/86 Plasma physics
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Velli, Marco Ph.D. Date - 1985 Appointment Date - 11/07 Space Plasma Physics	Venkateswaran, Kasturi Ph.D. Date - 1982 Appointment Date - 02/09 Molecular Microbial Diversity
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Waliser, Duane Ph.D. Date - 1992 Appointment Date - 11/07 Climate dynamics and modeling	Webster, Christopher R. Ph.D. Date - 1977 Appointment Date - 05/90 Laser Spectroscopy/Atmospheric Chemistry
Weissman, Paul R. Ph.D. Date - 1978 Appointment Date - 06/95 Cometary Physics and Dynamics	Werner, Michael W. Ph.D. Date - 1968 Appointment Date - 06/91 Infrared Astrophysics
West, Robert Ph.D. Date - 1977 Appointment Date - 06/06 Radiative Transfer & Retrieval	Williams, James Ph.D. Date - 1969 Appointment Date - 02/09 Solar System Dynamics
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Yeomans, Donald Keith Ph.D. Date - 1970 Appointment Date - 05/94 Solar System Dynamics	Yorke, Harold W. Ph.D. Date - 1974 Appointment Date - 12/97 Protostars & Protoplanetary Disks
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Zmuidzinas, Jonas 1 Ph.D. Date - 1987 Appointment Date - 10/06 Submillimeter Astronomy	Zurek, Richard W. Ph.D. Date - 1974 Appointment Date - 09/93 Atmospheric Dynamics