Professor Vanderlei Martins
Professor · Tenured
College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences
Earth and Space Institute
He/Him/His/Himself
About
Dr. Martins worked at the Climate and Radiation Branch of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as part of the UMBC-GSFC Joint Center for Earth Systems and Technology (JCET), where he keeps close association and collaboration. He previously worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Applied Physics of the University of Sao Paulo. He was part of the MODIS and Glory Science teams and he is the PI for HARP and HARP2 space instruments, and for the AirHARP, PI-Neph, Open-INeph, PACS, RPI, and Cloud Scanner airborne instruments, which have flown multiple NASA missions measuring optical properties of aerosol and clouds. Dr. Martins founded and is the Director of the Earth and Space Institute at UMBC.Research interests
Aerosol and Cloud Properties, Physics of the Atmosphere, Satellite Remote Sensing, Aircraft Measurements of the Atmosphere, Optics, Polarization, Instrument Development.Teaching interests
Radiative Transfer, Aerosol and Cloud Physics, Remote Sensing, Laboratory Measurements, Laboratory of Optics. and Laboratory ofModern Physics..Education
- Ph D, Physics — University of Sao Paulo (1999)
- MS, Physics — University of Sao Paulo (1994)
- BS, Physics — Unviersity of Sao Paulo (1991)