JACK JONATHAN LISSAUER

Space Science & Astrobiology Division, MS 245-3

NASA Ames Research Center

Moffett Field, CA 94035

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

Dynamical problems in planetary astrophysics.

Special interests: Planet formation; detection of extrasolar planets; assessing abundance of

habitable planets; rotation of planets; resonances and chaos; planetary rings and moons.

EDUCATION:

University of California, Berkeley, CA

Degree: Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, December 1982

Degree: S.B. in Mathematics, February 1978

HONORS:

H. Julian Allen Award, NASA Ames, 2014, 2018

NASA Honor Award: Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal, 2013, 2015

Ames Honor Award (Scientist), 2012

AGU Fellow, American Geophysical Union, 2011

Chambliss Writing Award, American Astronomical Society, 2007

Ames Associate Fellow, NASA Ames, 2007

2006 California Space SpotBeam Award/Space Sciences, California Space Authority

Harold C. Urey Prize, Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical

Society, 1992

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, 1987-1991

NASA Graduate Student Fellowship, 1981-1982

SPACECRAFT EXPERIENCE:

Kepler Science Co-Investigator, 1998-2012

TESS Science Co-Investigator, 2010-

PLANET DISCOVERIES:

(Doppler, w/Marcy et al.): GJ 876b (1998); GJ 876c (2001); GJ 436b (2004); GJ 876d

(2005)

(Kepler, w/Borucki et al.) most of the planets discovered by the mission, including being

lead discoverer of Kepler-11’s 6-planet system (2011) and Kepler-33’s 5-planet system

(2012), and co-lead discoverer (Lissauer et al. + Rowe et al.) of 715 planets in 2014

DISCOVERIES OF MOONS & PLANETARY RINGS (with M. Showalter):

U XXVI Mab (S/2003 U 1) (2003 - IAUC 8209)

U XXVII Cupid (S/2003 U 2) (2003 - IAUC 8209)

μ Ring (R/2003 U 1) (2005 - IAUC 8649)

n Ring (R/2003 U 2) (2005 - IAUC 8649)

S/2004 N 1 (2013 – IAUC CBET 3586)

TEAM HONORS:

Many group awards to the Kepler science team.

KEY PUBLICATIONS:

Author of two papers among the 29 included in the Virtual Special Issue to celebrate Icarus’ 50th Anniversary, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/icarus/virtual-special-issues/virtual-special-issue-to-celebrateicarus-50th-anniversary 

Lissauer et al. (2011) Architecture and Dynamics of Kepler's Candidate Multiple Transiting Planet Systems, Astrophys. J. Supp. 197, 8.