A. Rualdo Soto-Chavez

Dr. A. Rualdo Soto is a Senior Research Physicist at Syntek Technologies, Inc. His research interests include space plasmas and physics. In particular, he is an expert on wave-particle interactions, space craft data analysis, and plasma computer simulations. Before joining Syntek Technologies he was an Associate Research Professor at New Jersey Institute of Technology and a Research Scholar at Princeton University in NJ.

Prof. Louis Lanzerotti is a distinguished professor at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. His principal research interests have included space plasmas, geophysics, and engineering problems related to the impacts of atmospheric and space processes and the space environment on space and terrestrial technologies. Prof. Lanzerotti has served as principal investigator or co-investigator on several NASA interplanetary and planetary missions including ATS-1&3, IMP-4&5, Voyager 1&2, Ulysses, Galileo Orbiter and Entry Probe, and Cassini. Currently, he is aPrincipal Investigator with instruments on each of the two spacecraft in the NASA Van Allen Probes mission launched August 2012. He has also conducted geophysical research in the Antarctic and the Arctic, directed toward understanding of Earth's upper atmosphere and space environments. He has co-authored one book, co-edited four books, and is an author of more than 500 refereed engineering and science papers. He is founding editor for Space Weather, The International Journal of Research and Applications, published by the American Geophysical Union.