Marcos Sirota
JCET Fellow

JCET Research Group:

JCET Fellow

GSFC Code:

610.6

Mailing Address:

Sigma Space Corp.
4801 Forbes Blvd.
Lanham, MD 20706

Phone:

(301) 552-6300

Fax:

(301) 552-63xx/p>

Email:

marcos.sirota@sigmaspace.com

Biography:

Dr. J. Marcos Sirota received his undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from the University of Buenos Aires in 1981, and master's and doctoral degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from the University of Washington in 1984 and 1990, respectively. He has been conducting research at GSFC since 1990, in the fields of molecular spectroscopy, gas lasers, tunable diode lasers, laser ranging, and optical instrumentation for space applications, including micromachining technology and sensor systems. He is currently the systems engineer for the stellar reference system in the ICESat (GLAS) mission. He has held research positions at the National Research Council of Argentina, and teaching positions at the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Washington. Topics of research included high-power gas lasers, solar-pumped lasers, and optical flow diagnostics methods. He has been PI or Co-I in several research and development programs, including laser transponders, micromachined tunable etalons, external cavity tunable far-IR lasers, cryogenic capacitive rotary sensors, and high resolution spectroscopy for planetary atmospheres. He has published more over 30 articles in collaboration with colleagues in several fields.