Matteo Crismani

Primary research interests are planetary science, specifically understanding the Martian atmosphere using spacecraft data from the NASA MAVEN and ESA TGO missions. 

Research Highlights

• Expert in Planetary Science Spectroscopy, Data Pipeline Development, and Comparative Model Studies.
• Participating Scientist of the JAXA Martian Moons eXplorer spacecraft to study Phobos, a moon of Mars. The complimentary science proposed will characterize the link between interplanetary dust and the creation of meteoric smoke particles and their clouds.
• Science Team Member of the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN spacecraft’s IUVS instrument, studying the ablation of meteors, ionospheric chemistry and proton aurora.
• Science Collaborator of the Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter NOMAD spectrometer with a focused effort on volatile transport and development of the nadir observing data pipeline.
• Awardee of the NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) Fellowship, USRA (2018).
• Developed a data processing pipeline to extract the faint emission of Mg+ from the Martian mesosphere (Crismani+ 2017, Nature Geoscience)

Appointments

2022 – present Director of the Murillo Family Observatory, San Bernardino

2020 – present Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, California State University, San Bernardino

2018 – 2020 NASA Postdoctoral Fellow, Planetary System Laboratory, NASA-GSFC

2017 ­– 2018 Postdoctoral Researcher, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

2013 ­– 2017 Graduate Research Assistant, University of Colorado, Boulder