Brad Pierce

Biography

Brad Pierce began serving as Director of the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on Oct. 1, 2018. Prior to this appointment, he was a Physical Scientist at the NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research (STAR), Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS) in Madison, WI and a Senior Research Scientist at the NASA Langley Research Center, Atmospheric Sciences Division in Hampton, VA. He received his PhD in Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

He has more than 25 years of experience in the design, development and execution of global atmospheric models. Since 2001, he has been the Principal Investigator of RAQMS (Real-time Air Quality Modeling System). RAQMS is a global meteorological and chemical modeling system for assimilating satellite observations of atmospheric chemical composition and aerosols and has been used for real-time predictions of global air quality since 2012.