Jack J. Lissauer
Jack Jonathan Lissauer is an American research scientist who has worked for NASA's Ames Research Center since 1996. He is a science co-investigator on the Kepler space telescope mission.Biography
Lissauer received a PhD in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1982.
Prior to joining NASA, Lissauer was an associate professor and assistant professor at Stony Brook University. Earlier, he served as a visiting researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara and as an assistant research astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley.
His primary research interests are the formation of planetary systems, planetary dynamics and chaos, planetary ring systems, and circumstellar/protoplanetary disks.
He discovered, together with Mark R. Showalter, the inner satellites of Uranus: Cupid and Mab. With Showalter, I. de Pater and R. S. French, he also discovered Hippocamp, a small satellite of Neptune. In 2014, he was given the for his paper
"Models of Jupiter's growth incorporating thermal and hydrodynamic constraints".
His previous awards include the Harold C. Urey Prize from , the Chambliss Writing Prize from the AAS and a NASA Honor Award for Exceptional Scientific Achievement.
