Invited Professors
Dr. Alvaro Bastidas, full time Associate Professor of the Physics School and Director of the Lasers and Spectroscopy Group at Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Sede Medellín. His group is a member of the Lidar Network in Latin America, ALINE. Dr Bastidas has experience in the design, development and application of the lasers and remote sensing instrumentation for study of optic and physical properties of the atmosphere. His research interests include Sun Photometer and Spectroradiometer technical, particularly CIMEL systems. He has developed four lasers of high power for applications in spectroscopy, lidar technical and industrial processes; and a Tropospheric Lidar to study aerosol particles in Medellín, Colombia.
Dr. David Whiteman is the atmospheric Lidar scientist in the NASA GSFC’s Code 613.1 Raman Lidar Group. He has worked in the design, implementation, and field deployment of Lidar systems and analysis of atmospheric Lidar measurements to study atmospheric radiation and dynamics. Dr. Whiteman recently developed a new remote sensing technique for measuring cloud droplet radius and number density using Raman Lidar and used Raman Lidar measurements of cirrus cloud optical depth to derive particle size information in the cirrus clouds. He also leads the development of the Raman Airborne Spectroscopic Lidar (RASL), a NASA instrument incubator project which will be the first airborne Raman Lidar capable of measuring water vapor and other quantities during the daytime and the nighttime.
Dr. Eduardo Landulfo is a scientist in the Energy and Nuclear Research Institute (IPEN) of National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq) – Sao Paulo, Brazil. He worked in nuclear physics especially in Gamma spectroscopy, his actual research activities are laser remote sensing focused on: Lidar, aerosols and air pollution.
Dr. Elián Wolfram is a scientist in the Lidar Division of the Lasers and Applications Research Center (CEILAP-Argentina). His research activities include the design and implementation of Lidar systems to study of stratospheric ozone and UV solar radiation with remote sensing techniques.