Neil Dello Russo

Dr. Neil Dello Russo has experience acquiring, analyzing, and interpreting laboratory infrared spectroscopic data, including high-resolution gas-phase and moderate-resolution solid-phase spectroscopy of astrophysically relevant molecules, and in acquiring high- and moderate-resolution astronomical data with infrared spectrometers on large telescopes. These include the high-resolution Cryogenic Echelle Spectrometer (CSHELL) and the moderate-resolution (0.8-5.4 µm) spectrometer SpeX at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, the high- and moderate-resolution Near-Infrared Spectrometer (NIRSPEC) at the W. M. Keck Observatory, the high-resolution IRCS spectrometer on the Subaru Telescope at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and the very-high-resolution CRIRES spectrometer on the ESO VLT. He also has significant experience analyzing and interpreting high-resolution near-infrared astronomical array data. This includes developing data-processing routines, performing quantitative analysis, and interpreting data obtained with infrared spectrometers. He has obtained and analyzed data from comets as well as Mars, Jupiter, asteroids, exoplanets, and young stellar objects. Dr. Dello Russo also has significant experience developing low-temperature fluorescence models for molecules relevant to comets and other cold environments (e.g., H2O, C2H6, HCN, C2H2, CO, NH3, CH4, OCS).