Lazaros Oreopoulos

Lazaros Oreopoulos
Dr. Lazaros Oreopoulos (a.k.a Lazaros Oraiopoulos) is the Chief of the Climate and Radiation Lab. He has been at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center since 1997, initially with JCET/UMBC (1997-2008) and then as a civil servant (2008-present). He conducts research on the modeling and remote sensing of clouds, cloud-aerosol interactions, and many aspects of atmospheric radiative transfer for climatic applications. He is the Project Scientist for the Aqua satellite mission, and a member of the CloudSat Science Team, the GEWEX GASS Science Steering Committee, and the International Radiation Commission. He has also served as a member of the Landsat Science Team, the AMS Atmospheric Radiation Committee, and the GEWEX Radiation Panel. Dr. Oreopoulos holds a B. Sc. in Physics from Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and M. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees in Atmospheric Sciences from McGill University, Montreal.