Jacob Willem Kooi

Jacob Willem Kooi (Senior Member, IEEE) was born in Geldrop, The Netherlands, on July 12, 1960. He received the B.S. degree in microwave engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA, in 1985, the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, in 1992, and the Ph.D. degree in physics from the Kapteyn Institute for Astronomy, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, in 2008. He is currently with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. His research interests include millimeter and submillimeter wave technology, low energy physics, superconducting electronics, electrodynamics, thermodynamics, low-noise amplifiers and associated device physics, Fourier optics, instrument system stability, and their application to astronomy and aeronomy.