1 LUJENDRA OJHA www.lujendraojha.com 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ, 10013 (520)312-7921 luju.ojha@rutgers.edu EMPLOYMENT Assistant Professor September 2019 - Present Rutgers University Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Research Scientist August 2018 - August 2019 Johns Hopkins University Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Balustein Postdoctoral Fellow August 2016 - August 2018 Johns Hopkins University Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences EDUCATION Georgia Institute of Technology August 2012 - May 2016 Ph.D in Planetary Science (minor: volcanology) University of Arizona August 2007 - May 2012 Bachelors of Science in Geophysics (minor: planetary science) AWARDS AND HONORS CSH Fellowship (Declined). University of Bern. 2018 Blaustein Postdoctoral Fellowship. Johns Hopkins University. 2016 Urey Fellowship (Declined). Lunar and Planetary Institute. 2016 Council on Undergraduate Research Fellow. CUR. 2016 Best Paper. School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, GATech. 2016 Special Recognition. Office of the AZ governor (Douglas A. Ducey). 2015 30Under30 in Science. Forbes. 2015 Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) fellowship. NSF. 2015 Research Excellence Award. GATech. 2015 Travel Grant. Geological Society of America. 2014 Travel Grant. NASA Carnegie Institution for Science. 2013 Graduate Research Fellowship. National Science Foundation. 2013 Career Award. Lunar and Planetary Institute. 2013 Team-X Merit Award. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 2013 Vorhees Scholarship. University of Arizona. 2012 Best Geomorphology Talk. University of Arizona. 2012 First Place in Physical Science Research. University of Arizona. 2012 Honorary Presidents Award. University of Arizona. 2011 CUR Fellow. Council on Undergraduate Research. 2011 Group Achievement Award. HiRISE Science Team. NASA. 2011 2 GRANTS AND MISSION INVOLVEMENT High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) 2017 - Present Sponsor: NASA, Role: Co-I Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) 2017 - Present Sponsor: NASA, Role: Co-I Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission to Mars 2016 - Present Sponsor: NASA, Role: Team Member Martian Dust Devil Tracks: Albedos, Lifetimes, and Dust Deposition Rates 2017 - 2020 Sponsor: NASA Mars Data Analysis Program, Role: Co-I This is not the heat flux you are looking for 2017 - 2020 Sponsor: NASA, Role: Team Member Utilization of Virtual and Augmented Reality to Innovate and Diversify Earth and Plan- etary Science (EPS) Education 2020 - 2021 Sponsor: Rutgers Internal Grant, Role: PI Establishment of a new computing facility in EPS 2022 Sponsor: Rutgers Internal Gran, Role:PI Seasonal slumps in the equatorial regions of Mars 2022 - 2025 Sponsor: NASA, Role: PI Geophysical evolution of the Martian crust from magnetic source depth analysis of MAVEN data 2022 - 2025 Sponsor: NASA, Role: Co-I TEACHING Moons and Planets (224) (Undergraduate n = 30) Spring 2020 Planet Mars (222) (Undergraduate n = 25) Fall 2020 Graduate Research Seminar (612) (Co-taught with Greg Mountain) (n = 12) Fall 2020 Remote Sensing for Earth and Planetary Sciences(427/527) ( n = 25) Spring 2021 Seminar in Planetary Sciences (611) ( n = 5) Spring 2021 Planet Mars (222) (Undergraduate n = 23) Fall 2021 Major Events (480) (Co-taught with Carl Swisher) Spring 2022 Seminar in Planetary Sciences (611) ( n = 5) Spring 2022 Sequence Stratigraphy (No formal teaching in this course) Spring 2022 Moons and Planets (224) (Undergraduate n = X) Fall 2022 HIGHSCHOOL STUDENTS SUPERVISED IN RESEARCH Jake Santos Spring 2022 - Present Byram Hills High School Josh Piecyk 2018 Byram Hills High School UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS SUPERVISED IN RESEARCH Zain Kamal Recipient of New Jersey Space Grant Spring 2022 Jason Kawalec Spring 2021 Alexander Baker Physics Honor Thesis Fall 2021 Bryce Troncone Spring 2020 - Present