Dr. Jonathan I. Lunine
Professor of Planetary Science and of
Physics
Contact:
Lunar and Planetary Lab
Tucson, AZ 85721-0092
Office
location: Space Sciences 522
Phone: (520)
621-2789
Fax: (520)
626-8250
Email: jlunine
Administrative
Associate:
Donita
Vanture
(520)
621-6939
Jonathan I.
Lunine is Professor of Planetary Sciences and of Physics at the University of Arizona. He is a
Distinguished Visiting Scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he serves
as a member of the Director’s Advisory Council.
His research interests include the evolution of giant planets and brown dwarf stars, the formation of planets, the evolution of Titan's atmosphere and
surface processes, and organic chemistry leading to the origin of life. Lunine is an
interdisciplinary scientist on the Cassini mission to
Saturn and on the James
Webb (Next-Generation) Space Telescope. He is a co-investigator on
the Juno
mission under development for a launch to Jupiter, and on a Spitzer
Space Telescope team investigating the evolution of planet-forming disks. Dr.
Lunine is the author of the book Earth: Evolution of a Habitable World (Cambridge
University Press, 1999) and Astrobiology: A
Multidisciplinary Approach (Addison-Wesley, 2005). He is a fellow of the American
Geophysical Union and the American Association for the Advancement of Science,
and elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics. Dr.
Lunine earned a B.S. in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Rochester in 1980,
followed by M.S. (1983) and Ph.D (1985) degrees in
Planetary Science from the California Institute of
Technology.
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