Dr. Elsayed Talaat
President and Chief Executive Officer
USRA
Dr. Elsayed R. Talaat serves as President and CEO at USRA.
Before joining USRA, Dr. Talaat was Director of the Office of Space Weather Observations at NESDIS where he provided leadership and oversight in the development, acquisition, integration, installation, and acceptance of major system elements for NOAA’s operational and environmental satellite systems.
Prior to that, Dr. Talaat was the Chief Scientist of the Heliophysics Division at NASA Headquarters. In this role, he directed overall development efforts for the Heliophysics space science program in Solar, Heliospheric, Magnetospheric, and Ionospheric, Thermospheric, and Mesospheric physics. Previously, he was a Program Scientist at NASA Headquarters where he served as Program Scientist for the Living with a Star mission and science line, grant research lines, and Heliophysics and Planetary missions.
Before his tenure at NASA, he was Supervisor of the Earth and Planetary Atmospheres Section at Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), where his research focused on developing remote sensing techniques and data analysis and modeling of geophysical and planetary phenomena.
Dr. Talaat holds a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering from the University of Washington, and a doctorate from the University of Michigan in Atmospheric and Space Sciences. He has authored or collaborated on over 60 journal papers and over 400 conference papers.
Related Sessions
Securing Satellites and our Safety and Security from Space Weather
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Track: Symposium Program