Dr. Gulkis has over fifty years of research experience in radio and submillimeter astronomy, specializing in studies of Jovian magnetospheric physics, the major planet atmospheres, comets and experimental cosmology. He has served as a science Co-Investigator on three NASA space missions (Voyager, COBE, and JUNO) and one ESA International space mission (ROSETTA). Dr. Gulkis was the team leader and Principal Investigator of the MIRO instrument on the ESA ROSETTA spacecraft from 1989-2015 when he announced his retirement. Rosetta launched successfully in March 2004. He has served on numerous NASA Advisory Committees on Planetary and Space Astronomy, and has served on the Icarus Board of Editors. He received two NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Awards, one for work on Outer Planet Models, the other for work on Observational Cosmology. He received the Gruber award for Cosmology in 2006 as an original member of the COBE science team. He was appointed Senior Research Scientist at JPL in 1981. Dr. Gulkis has managed planetary atmospheres, space physics, planetary and life detection and astrophysics research groups in the Earth and Space Sciences Division at JPL, and served as the Program Scientist for Solar System Exploration in the Space and Earth Science Program Directorate. Currently he is working full time as a research scientist in the Astrophysics and Space Science section at JPL.
