Craig E. DeForest leads the Heliophysics research group at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado. His career in plasma remote sensing dates to 1985, when he operated the D3D Tokamak’s Charge Exchange Recombination experiment. He earned his Ph.D. in 1995 from Stanford University, where he conducted imaging observations of the solar corona using then-new extreme-ultraviolet telescopes. He was the Resident Observer for the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory’s Michelson Doppler Imager from its launch in 1995 through 1999. At SwRI he has designed and built novel instruments, developed new magnetohydrodynamic simulation techniques, pioneered quantitative solar wind imaging, and worked to unify the fields of solar and space physics. http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~deforest/
