Apurva Oza - Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology.

At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, I contribute exosphere models for Europa Clipper as well as future ocean world missions towards Saturn's moon Titan Enceladus and Uranus's moons Ariel & beyond.

Occasionally I teach the M2 course: "Planet Formation and Evolution" as a visiting lecturer at the University of Bern (u^b) in Switzerland and “Introduction to Planetary Astrophysics” at the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, in Bangalore, India. My field of expertise is planetary theory.

I study the thermal and tidal evolution of tidally-locked satellites. Diurnal cycles of tenuous atmospheric gas from our models have been validated by Apollo landers detection of noble gases on the Moon, as well as periodic oxygen cycles at Europa by the Hubble Space Telescope & Juno spacecraft. A similar dusk>dawn mechanism is thought to also persist on Ganymede, which JUICE is set to probe. Trapped molecular oxygen in ice bubbles inferred at comets by the ROSETTA spacecraft, may also provide a key to the origin of life in our solar system's ocean worlds.

*Contact* : apurva-dot-oza-dot-space-at-gmail-dot-com