Mike Wolff

Education

Mike studies the behavior of Martian atmosphere, with a specialization in the how the dust and ice particles in the atmosphere impact the weather and climate. He is currently involved with several ongoing spacecraft missions, including the Perseverance rover, the Emirates Mars Mission, and the Trace Gas Orbiter. He is an "offsite" employee, working in a suburb of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (for several months a year in Paris at the Sorbonne University). Though he looks much older, Mike received his Ph.D. (Astronomy) in 1993 from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.