David Painemal received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and the M.S. degree in geophysics from the University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, in 2006, and the Ph.D. degree in meteorology and physical oceanography from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA, in 2011. He was a NASA Post-Doctoral Fellow with the NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, USA, from 2011 to 2013. He is a Lead Research Scientist with Science Systems and Applications, Inc., Hampton, VA, where he is a member of the Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy System, Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program, and the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation Science Team. He has been a Principal Investigator and a Co-Investigator of research projects funded by NASA and DOE, working on the interface between validation/development of satellite remote sensing algorithms and applications of satellite cloud retrievals to climate research, with a particular focus on aerosol–cloud radiation interactions.