Welcome to SSL Spotlights! In these Q&A interviews, you’ll see a variety of projects, backgrounds, interests, and talents among our 250+ staff and students. For those who already work here, these profiles can help us get to know each other better. For those outside SSL, you will get an idea of what it might be like to work here.
Mark Lewis is a Mission Operations Manager at the SSL Mission Operations Center (MOC). Karin Hauck is Communications Manager for Multiverse Education Group at SSL.
Rob Lillis is a scientist who studies how planets and their climates evolve. Mars is his first love and main squeeze, but he’s also dabbled
Ellen Taylor is a project systems engineer at SSL who has worked on COS, CHIPS, THEMIS, ICON, GLIDE and ESCAPADE missions. Karin Hauck is Communications
Ellen Torres Thompson is a senior at UC Berkeley in Astrophysics, and an SSL researcher with John Tomsick’s group. Karin Hauck is Communications Manager for
Dr. Joanne Wu: I joined SSL in July 2017 as a postdoc, and now I am an assistant research physicist. As part of the ICON
What do you do at Space Sciences Laboratory? I design electronic circuit boards—schematics and layouts—and also I write code for parts called FPGAs, or Field-Programmable
The ICON (Ionospheric Connection Explorer) mission is now in orbit and sending back valuable data about Earth’s ionosphere, after 28 months of repeated launch delays.
