d c lis

Dariusz C. Lis received the Ph.D. degree in astronomy from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA, in 1989. He was a Senior Research Associate in physics with the California Institute of Technology and Deputy Director of the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, the Professor and Director of Laboratory for Studies of Radiation and Matter in Astrophysics and Atmospheres, Sorbonne University/Paris Observatory, and is currently a Scientist with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA. He is an expert in the high-resolution molecular spectroscopy of the solar system objects and the interstellar medium, from the Milky Way to the high-redshift universe. Using ground-based and space-borne submillimeter facilities, including the Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, Herschel Space Observatory, and Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, he has studied molecules and their isotopic ratios as tracers of the physical conditions and chemistry in the interstellar medium, and the origin of earth's water.