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Dariusz C. (Darek) Lis
Scientist, Jet Propulsion
Laboratory
Email: dclis @ jpl.caltech.edu
Biography
Darek Lis obtained his PhD from the University of Massachusetts,
Amherst in 1989. He subsequently joined the submillimeter group at
Caltech, where he was Research Fellow in Physics (1989 - 1992),
Senior Research Fellow in Physics (1992 - 1998), Senior Research
Associate in Physics (1998 - 2015), and Visiting Associate in Physics
(2015 - 2020), as well as Co-Principal
Investigator (1996 - 2013) and Deputy Director (2009 - 2014) of the
Caltech Submillimeter Observatory. From 2014 to 2019 he was
Professor at Sorbonne University in Paris and Director of the
Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics and
Atmospheres, a laboratory of CNRS and a scientific department of
the Paris Observatory. He returned to Caltech in 2019 as Scientist
at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He was a recipient of NASA Group
Achievement Awards in 2010 and 2014 and NASA Exceptional Scientific
Achievement Medal in 2021. In 2021 he was elected to the Organizing
Committee of the International Astronomical Union, Commission H2
Astrochemistry.
Research
Darek Lis's research interests include astrochemistry and
high-resolution molecular spectroscopy of Solar System objects and the
interstellar medium, from the Milky Way to the high-redshift Universe,
as well as submillimeter heterodyne instrumentation. Using ground-based
and space-borne far-infrared facilities, such as the Caltech
Submillimeter Observatory, Herschel Space Observatory, or
Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, he has studied
molecules and their isotopic composition to understand the physics
and chemistry of the interstellar medium, as well as the origin of
Earth's oceans.
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