Planetary Sciences

Imke de Pater is a Professor at the University of California, in the departments of Astronomy and Earth and Planetary Science. She was born in Hengelo, the Netherlands, in 1952 and received her Ph.D. cum Laude in 1980 from Leiden University. She held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona from 1980 to 1983, after which she moved to the University of California, Berkeley. Jack J. Lissauer is a Space Scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. He was born in San Francisco in 1957, received his S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1978 and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982. He held postdoctoral fellowships at NASA Ames and the University of California, Santa Barbara, and was on the faculty of the State University of New York, Stony Brook, from 1987 to 1996.