In addition to his duties as AIRS Science Team Leader, Dr. Teixeira serves as the Deputy Director of the Center for Climate Sciences and supervises the Climate Physics Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In addition, he is a Visiting Associate in Environmental Science & Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, and a Visiting Scholar at the Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering (JIFRESSE) at the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to his work at JPL, Dr. Teixeira was a Senior Scientist at the NATO Undersea Research Centre in La Spezia, Italy, a UCAR Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory, Monterey, California, and a Scientist at the European Centre for Medium-range Weather Forecasts near London, England. Dr. Teixeira's research interests include the links between turbulence, clouds and climate, and the use of a variety of models and observations to better understand the interactions between Earth's climate system and small-scale processes such as convection.
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Joao Teixeira
