Padma A. Yanamandra-Fisher
Background
Dr. Yanamandra-Fisher received her Ph.D. from University of Denver, with her thesis addressing particle size distribution in Saturn’a and Uranus’ rings, using Voyager 2 data. She did her Post-Doc at JPL during the Voyager 2 – Neptune encounter and joined the Earth and Planetary Atmospheres group at JPL as a Research Scientist. She developed a ground-based observing program of Saturn’s rings to model their thermal behavious between Voyager and Cassini epochs. She joined SSI in 2011.