Juan Ramon Pardo Carrion

Juan R. Pardo received the degree in physics from Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain, in 1991, and the Ph.D. degree in astrophysics and spatial technology from Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris, France, in 1996. Since then, he has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, Columbia, New York, and at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. In 2001, he joined the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Madrid, as a Research Associate. His main research interests are microwave and IR spectroscopy, observational techniques in submillimeter astronomy, interstellar and circumstellar media, radiative transfer in planetary atmospheres, and terrestrial and planetary remote sensing from ground and satellite platforms. He has made several contributions to these areas in the past, including the ATM model used in this work.