NASA GISS: Michael I. Mishchenko

Michael I. Mishchenko

Please note that Dr. Michael I. Mishchenko passed away in July 2020. We do not expect that the information presented on these Electromagnetic Scattering research pages will be updated with new data.

Senior Scientist
NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
2880 Broadway
New York, NY 10025

Full CV

Full CV

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Education

Ph.D. in Physics (with honors), Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Kiev, 1987
MS in Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 1983

Research Interests

Electromagnetic scattering
Radiative transfer in planetary atmospheres and particulate surfaces
Terrestrial and planetary remote sensing
Cloud and aerosol physics
Direct and indirect aerosol forcing of climate

Editorial Activities

Editor of 3 monographs
Guest Editor of 18 special journal issues (1999-2019)
Editor-in-Chief, Physics Open (2019-present)
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (2006-present)
Editorial Board Member, Space Science and Technology (2019-present)
Editorial Advisory Board Member, Springer Series of Monographs in Light Scattering (2017-present)
Advisory Board Member, Physics Procedia (2013-2017)
Editorial Board Member, Advances in Astronomy and Space Physics (2012-present)
Editorial Board Member, Waves in Random and Complex Media (2004-present)
Editorial Board Member, Kinematics and Physics of Celestial Bodies (2003-present)
Topical Editor on scattering theory and meteorological optics, Applied Optics (2000-2006)
Associate Editor, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences (1999-2004)
Associate Editor, Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiative Transfer (1995-2005)
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Electromagnetic Waves and Applications (1991-1992)

Other Professional Activities

Convener, 18th Conference on Electromagnetic & Light Scattering (Zhejiang University, Hangzhou city, Zhejiang province, China, 2019)
Convener, 17th Conference on Electromagnetic & Light Scattering (College Station, TX, March 2018)
Convener, 16th Conference on Electromagnetic & Light Scattering (College Park, MD, March 2017)
Convener, 15th Conference on Electromagnetic & Light Scattering: Celebrating 150 Years of Maxwell's Electromagnetics (Leipzig, Germany, June 2015)
Director of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Special Detection Technique (Polarimetry) and Remote Sensing (Kyiv, Ukraine, 12-25 September 2010)
Organizer of the 10th Conference on Electromagnetic & Light Scattering, 17-22 June 2007, Bodrum, Turkey
Organizer of the International Conference on Light Scattering by Nonspherical Particles (New York, September 1998)
Member, AGU Fellows Committee, Atmospheric Sciences Section (2007-2012)

Projects

Project Scientist for the NASA Glory Satellite Mission
Project Manager for the NASA Global Aerosol Climatology Project
Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator on multiple NASA, DOE, and DOD research proposals

Professional Honors and Awards

François Arago Award in Polarimetric Remote Sensing (2019)
NASA Performance Award (2019)
NASA Performance Award (2018)
NASA Twenty Year Service Award (2017)
NASA Performance Award (2017)
NASA Performance Award (2016)
NASA Performance Award (2015)
NASA Performance Award (2014)
Hendrik C. van de Hulst Award from Elsevier (2013)
NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (2012)
NASA Fifteen Year Service Award (2012)
NASA GSFC Special Act Award (2011)
NASA Group Achievement Award (Glory Mission, 2011)
NASA Group Achievement Award (Earth Science Constellation Red Team, 2011)
National Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology (2010)
Basic Sciences Book Award of the International Academy of Astronautics (2010)
NASA Quality Increase Award (2010)
NASA Special Act Award (2010)
JQSRT Milestone Paper Award from Elsevier (2010)
Asteroid 22686 (1998 QL53) named "Mishchenko" by the International Astronomical Union (2009)
Habilitation Doctoral Degree in Physics and Mathematics, The Main Astronomical Observatory of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv (2008)
NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (2008)
NASA Quality Increase Award (2008)
NASA Ten Year Service Award (2007)
NASA Performance Award (2007)
NASA GSFC Special Act Award (2007)
Arthur S. Flemming Award, George Washington University (2006)
Fellow of the American Meteorological Society (since 2006)
NASA GSFC Special Act Award (2006)
Fellow of The Institute of Physics, UK (since 2004)
NASA GSFC Special Act Award (2004)
Fellow of the Optical Society of America (since 2003)
Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (since 2003) (NASA Press Release)
NASA Quality Increase Award (2003)
NASA Group Achievement Award (CRYSTAL-FACE Project, 2002)
NASA GISS Peer Award (2001)
NASA GSFC Special Act Award (2001)
NASA GSFC Job Performance Award (2000)
Henry G. Houghton Award of the American Meteorological Society (1999)
NASA GSFC Job Performance Award (1997)
N. P. Barabashov Award of the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences (1993)