Professor Lanzerotti's principal research interests include space
plasmas, geophysics, and engineering problems related to the impacts of
atmospheric and space processes and the space environment on space and
terrestrial technologies. He has conducted geophysical research in the
Antarctic and the Arctic since the 1970s, and has also served as
PI/co-PI on several United States NASA interplanetary and planetary
missions including Voyager, Ulysses, Galileo, and Cassini. He has
co-authored one book, co-edited two books, and is an author of more
than 500 refereed engineering and science papers. He is currently
serving as the editor for Space Weather, The International Journal of
Research and Applications, published by the American Geophysical Union.
He has seven patents issued or filed.
Professor Lanzerotti has served as a member or chair of numerous committees
of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the National Research
Council (NRC) of the National Academies. In the NRC he is currently chair
of the Committee to Assess the Safety and Security of Spent Nuclear Fuel,
and chair of the Committee on Assessment of Options for Extending the
Life of the Hubble Space Telescope. Professor Lanzerotti has been elected
a member of the United States National Academy of Engineering and of the
International Academy of Astronautics. He is also a Fellow of the IEEE,
AIAA, AGU, APS, and AAAS. He is the recipient of two NASA Distinguished
Public Service Medals, the NASA Distinguished Scientific Achievement Medal,
the COSPAR William Nordberg Medal, and the Antarctic Service Medal of
the United States. Minor Planet 5504 Lanzerotti recognizes his space and
planetary research, and Mount Lanzerotti (74.50° S, 70.33° W)
recognizes his research in the Antarctic.
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Professor Louis J. Lanzerotti received
a B.S. degree in engineering physics from the University of Illinois (1960)
and A.M. and Ph.D. degrees in physics (1963, 1965) from Harvard University.
After serving wo years as a postdoctoral fellow, Lanzerotti joined the
technical staff of Bell Laboratories in 1967, and is presently a consultant
to Lucent Technologies. Since 2002 he has also been a Distinguished Research
Professor of Physics at the New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark,
New Jersey.
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