T. Joseph W. Lazio

Dr. Joseph Lazio is Chief Scientist of the Interplanetary Network Directorate at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. The Interplanetary Network Directorate manages the Deep Space Network for NASA's Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) Division. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, was a U.S. National Research Council Research Associate at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and was a Radio Astronomer on the staff of the U.S. NRL, before joining JPL. He was the Deputy Principal Investigator for the proposed Dark Ages Radio Explorer (DARE). He has served as Project Scientist for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA); the Deputy Director of the Lunar University Network for Astrophysics Research (LUNAR); and as Project Scientist for the U.S. Virtual Astronomical Observatory. He also observes routinely with the world's premier ground-based radio telescopes, including the Expanded Very Large Array, the Very Long Baseline Array, the Green Bank Telescope, the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope, and the Australia Telescope Compact Array.