Peter Kollmann

Peter Kollmann is a staff scientist in APL’s Space Exploration Sector. He has the German equivalent of a BS and an MS in physics from the University of Stuttgart and a PhD in natural sciences from the University of Braunschweig and the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research. He studies space radiation throughout our solar system using satellite observations and theory and is deeply involved with all the recent planetary missions to Jupiter and Saturn, as well as other missions such as New Horizons and Lunar Vertex. He supports several missions through leadership roles, such as project scientist on Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE)/Particle Environment Package (PEP)-Hi, deputy instrument scientist on New Horizons/Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation (PEPSSI), and instrument scientist on Lunar Vertex/Magnetic Anomaly Plasma Spectrometer (MAPS).