The Team

The INCUS team is comprised of scientists and engineers from 11 universities, 3 NASA laboratories, 2 industry partners, and 7 other meteorological centers, institutes and organizations.

Leadership

Susan van den Heever

Principal Investigator
University Distinguished Professor
Colorado State University

Ziad Haddad

Deputy Principal Investigator
Radar Science Group Supervisor
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA

Simone Tanelli

Project Scientist
Principal Engineer
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA

Yunjin Kim

Project Manager
Directorate Engineer
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA

Science Team

Scott Braun

Research Meteorologist
Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA

Shannon Brown

Senior Technologist
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA

Jennie Bukowski

Postdoctoral Fellow
Colorado State University

Randy Chase

Research Scientist I
Colorado State University

Brenda Dolan

Research Scientist
Colorado State University

Sean Freeman

Assistant Professor
The University of Alabama in Huntsville

Patrick Gatlin

Research Meteorologist
Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA

Leah Grant

Research Scientist
Colorado State University

George Huffman

Research Physical Scientist
Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA

Pavlos Kollias

Professor
Stony Brook University

Mark Kulie

Research Scientist
NOAA

Gabrielle Bee Leung

PhD Candidate
Colorado State University

Z. “Johnny” Luo

Professor
CCNY

Gerald Mace

Professor
University of Utah

Peter Marinescu

Research Scientist
Colorado State University

Mary Morris

Technologist
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA

Walter Petersen

Chief, Science Research and Projects Division
Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA

Derek Posselt

Research Scientist
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA

Sai Prasanth

NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellow
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA

Kristen Rasmussen

Associate Professor
Colorado State University

Steve Reising

Professor
Colorado State University

Rick Schulte

Postdoctoral Fellow
Colorado State University

Courtney Schumacher

Professor
Texas A&M University

Itinderjot Singh

Postdoctoral Fellow
Colorado State University

Graeme Stephens

Director of the Center for Climate Sciences
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA

Rachel Storer

Associate Project Scientist
UCLA/JIFRESSE

Ousmane Sy

Engineer
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA

Hanii Takahashi

Scientist
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA

Industry Partners

Tendeg

Deployable Antenna

Blue Canyon Technologies

Spacecraft and Mission Operations

Data Center

Phil Partain

Science Data Processing Center Lead
Cooporative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere

Amy Burzynski

Science Data Processing Center Co-Lead
Cooporative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere

International Collaborators

Alessandro Battaglia

Associate Professor
University of Leicester

Richard Forbes

Senior Scientist
ECMWF

Christopher Holloway

Associate Professor
University of Reading

Alain Protat

Senior Principal Research Scientist
Australian Bureau of Meterology

Thota Narayana Rao

Head, Clouds and Convective Systems Group
NARL

Rémy Roca

Senior Researcher
CNRS

Philip Stier

Professor
University of Oxford

Francisco J. Tapiador

Professor
University of Castilla-La Mancha

Daniel Vila

Research Associate
INPE

Advisory Board

Christian Jakob

Professor
Monash University

John Knaff

Physical Scientist
NOAA

Mitchell Moncrieff

Senior Scientist
NCAR

David Romps

Professor
University of California, Berkeley

Wei-Kuo Tao

Senior Research Scientist
Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA