Justin Likar

Justin Likar is a cognizant engineer who serves in lead engineer and principal investigator roles in areas relating to natural and human-made space radiation impacts on space system design and operation. Specific areas of expertise include dose, dose rate, and single-event effects in microelectronics, spacecraft charging, space weather, climatology, targeted sensing, and on-orbit operations and anomaly attribution. His current significant projects include Europa Clipper (multiple instruments), Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP), Io Volcano Observer (IVO), and the Van Allen Probes extended mission, along with a number of Department of Defense and National Security Space programs. He served on the Steering Committee for the 2017 Space Environment Engineering and Science Applications Workshop (SEESAW), the 2018 and 2020 Spacecraft Charging Technology Conference (SCTC), and the 2019 Applied Space Environments Conference (ASEC).