Research Team
Dr. Jonathan Jiang is a key research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology, and is a recognized international leader in Earth and Space Science. He has a Master's Degree in Astrophysics and PhD in Atmospheric Physics at York's Earth & Space Science Department, and graduated with his doctorate in 1996. He is a principal research scientist involved in various projects dealing with global climate model simulation, analysis, and evaluation using satellite observations.
Jonathan serves as the supervisor for JPL's Aerosol and Cloud research group overseeing a team of 30. He has been an author or co-author on over 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications and book chapters, and has been awarded the highly prestigious NASA Exceptional Achievement Medal – twice (in 2010 and then again in 2013) – for his outstanding research leadership using NASA satellite data. He is also an editor of Earth and Space Science - a leading international journal of American Geophysical Union.
Kristen Fahy is a Science Systems Engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and member of the Tropospheric Composition Group in the Earth Science Section. Kristen received her Bachelor's degree in Physics with a concentration in astrophysics from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She then received her M.Ed. and followed that by teaching physics. She started at JPL by working with exoplanet spectroscopy data as an intern, transitioned into administration work, and then moved back into her passion of science and research.
Kristen works on a variety of climate modeling projects, flight projects and proposals and exoplanetary research. Her broad research interests include habitability of life in the universe, extraterrestrial communication and observational planetary studies.