Peter Kollmann

Dr. Peter Kollmann is a physicist in the Solar and Space Physics Group within APL’s Space Exploration Sector. He studies space radiation throughout our solar system using satellite observations and theory and is deeply involved with all of the recent planetary missions to Jupiter and Saturn as well as other missions such as Lunar Vertex and New Horizons. He serves several missions through leadership roles, such as project scientist for Lunar Vertex and instrument project scientist for JUpiter Icy moons Explorer (JUICE)/Particle Environment Package (PEP)-Hi. He has published on a wide variety of targets (including in prestigious journals such as Science and Nature Astronomy), from plasma at Venus, to the radiation belts of giant planets, to the interplanetary medium around Pluto, commonly combining various techniques of data analysis and numerical modeling. On the hardware side, he has supported several calibration campaigns on the ground and in flight and has contributed to instrument flight software. He supports the community by organizing conference sessions that bring together scientists with different focus areas, by providing processed data that are used for mission planning and science, and through white papers that influence NASA’s and the European Space Agency’s (ESA) future science priorities.