Bradley L. Jolliff
Research Associate Professor
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Washington University, St. Louis MO

Dr. Bradley L. Jolliff (Brad) is a research associate professor at Washington University in St. Louis, where he has been employed for the past 18 years. His research focuses in three main areas: understanding planetary materials through the study of returned and meteoritic samples, understanding planets through robotic surface investigation and orbital remote sensing, and investigation of terrestrial materials and geologic environments as planetary analogs. Primary areas of interest at present include the Moon and Mars. The goal of his research is to learn what materials make up the surface and interior of planetary objects, how they are distributed around and within the planet, and what they tell about the planet’s history.

Jolliff has overall responsibility for several laboratories at Washington University, including the electron microprobe and X-ray diffraction facilities. In addition to his own research, Jolliff trains and advises undergraduate and graduate students in geologic materials analysis and individual research projects. Jolliff is a collaborating member of the Mars Exploration Rovers science team and he is a member of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera science team. In addition to these, he has participated on numerous mission proposals including the Mars Microbeam Raman Spectrometer for MSL, and he was the deputy PI for the Moonrise New Frontiers mission proposal. He was a member of the Inner Planets Panel for the National Academy of Sciences Decadal Survey for Solar System Exploration in 2001-2002. Jolliff has served on the Curation and Analysis Planning Team for Extraterrestrial Materials (CAPTEM), including chairing the lunar sample-allocation subcommittee, and he was one of the co-leaders of the CAPTEM lunar science initiative “New Views of the Moon.” Jolliff is currently a member of the Lunar and Planetary Institute Science Council for USRA. He served as an associate editor for the American Mineralogist from 1997 to 2003 and he currently chairs the Planetary Materials Interest Group.

Dr. Jolliff obtained his undergraduate education at Furman University in Greenville, SC, and he obtained a masters degree and Ph.D. from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology in Rapid City, SD. Jolliff served in the US Army on active duty from 1977 to 1982, first with the 54th Combat Engineer Battalion in Wildflecken, Germany, and later as a research and development coordinator with the Countermine Lab at the Mobility Equipment Research and Development Command, Ft Belvoir, VA.