Biography

Dr. Lazaros Oreopoulos (a.k.a Lazaros Oraiopoulos) is the Chief of the Climate and Radiation Lab. He has over two decades of experience conducting research on the modeling and remote sensing of clouds, their impact on the Earth’s Radiation Budget, aerosol-cloud interactions, and many aspects of atmospheric radiative transfer for climatic applications. He currently serves as the Project Scientist for the Aqua satellite mission. He has been a member of the Precipitation Measurement Mission, CloudSat-CALIPSO, MODIS, AIRS, and Landsat Science Teams, and has served in the International Radiation Commission, the AMS Atmospheric Radiation Committee, and the GEWEX Radiation Panel. He received the NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (ESAM) in 2018, the GSFC Robert H. Goddard award for Science in 2019, and the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal in 2022.

Dr. Oreopoulos holds a B. Sc. in Physics from Aristotle's University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and M. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees in Atmospheric Sciences from McGill University, Montreal.