Jack Jonathan Jonathan Lissauer

Background

Lissauer, Jack Jonathan was born on March 25, 1957 in San Francisco, California, United States. Son of Alexander Lissauer and Ruth Spector.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978; Phd in Applied Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, 1982.

Career

NAS-National Research Council resident research associate, National Aeronautics and Space Administration-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, 1983-1985; assistant research astronomer, University of California, Berkeley, 1985; visiting researcher department physics Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1985-1987; assistant professor astronomy program department earth and space science, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1987-1993; associate professor, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1993-1996; space scientist, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames Research Center, since 1996. Representative Universities Space Research Association, State University of New York, Stony Brook, 1987-1996. Visiting scholar department planetary science and lunar and planetary laboratory U. Arizona, Tucson, 1990.

Guest professor department physics U. Paris VII et Observatoire Paris, Meudon, France, 1990. Member Lunar and Planetary Geophysical Society Review Panel,1989, 91. Visiting assistant research physicist Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1992, organizer Program on Plant Formation,1992.

Research associate Institute d'Astrophysique, Paris, 1993. Visiting scholar department astronomy University of California, Berkeley, 1994-1995. Adjunct associate professor State University of New York, Stony Brook, since 1996.

Achievements

• Achievements include research in planetary accretion, extrasolar planets, dynamics of planetary rings, cratering, binary and multiple starsystems, circumstellar disks, resonances and chaos.

Membership

Member American Astronomical Association (division planetary science, division dynamicalastronomy, Harold C. Urey prize division planetary science 1992), International Astronomical Union, American Geophysical Union.

Connections

Father:

Alexander Lissauer

Mother:

Ruth Spector