Stanford University
Ranked in the world’s top 2% of scientists in 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004 (top 0.489%: 285 out of 58309 in-field) and nominated for the singularly distinctive Theodore von Kármán Award for the most outstanding contribution in the field of science and engineering during thirty-two years of service in the U.S. Air Force, the authorship of Timothy Sands has garnered over two dozen major publication awards. In his academic career, he held professorships and executive and senior leadership positions at Cornell University, the Air Force Test Pilot School, the Naval Postgraduate School, and the Air Force Institute of Technology, respectively. Dr. Sands performed space mission design and space experimentation for the Department of Defense (DoD) Space Test Program (STP), including the middle atmosphere high-resolution spectrograph investigation (MAHRSI) flown in the pallet system on space shuttle mission STS-66; as well as the polar ozone and aerosol measurement (POAM) geophysical research mission flown on the French SPOT-4 satellite; and also the beryllium-induced radiation experiment flown on the Russian RESURS satellite. His other interesting space experiment missions include the polar orbiting geomagnetic survey flown on the defense meteorological satellite program; the remote atmospheric and ionospheric detection system on TIROS-J; and the solar wind interplanetary measurement flown on the NASA WIND satellite.