Team - Alan Title

What do you do as SDO's AIA Principal Investigator

As the Principal Investigator for AIA, I am responsible for the execution of the instrument development in order to meet the mission's science goals.

How does your work contribute to SDO's mission goals?

My job is to see that the mission's goals are achieved. In particular, I am concerned that the SDO data is available to the widest possible community in the most rapid and most useful form.

What do you like most about your job?

Getting to do the new science each mission allows.

When did you decide you wanted to work for NASA?

I don't work for NASA. NASA works for me by providing the infrastructure that allows the development of space missions.

Where did you go to school and what degrees did you get?

I went to the University of California, Los Angeles, and got a B.A. in Mathematics and Caltech and got a PhD in Physics.

What was the first job you ever had?

My first job was working in my Dad's drug store. My second job was as a Research Fellow at Caltech.

How did you come to actually work for NASA?

I don't work for NASA. I'm a Corporate Senior Fellow at Lockheed Martin and a Professor of Physics at Stanford University.

How long have you been working on NASA projects?

I've been working on NASA projects as the member of a science team since 1967.

How long have you been working on the SDO mission?

I've been working on the goals of SDO for two decades.

AIA Principal Investigator