Our Team

LAVA is developed by a team of NASA civil servants and contractors within the Computational Aerosciences Branch at NASA Ames Research Center.

LAVA Leadership

Jared Duensing

LAVA Team Lead

Jeff Housman

Curvilinear Lead

Emre Sozer

Unstructured Lead

Mike Barad

Cartesian Lead

Gerrit-Daniel Stich

Contractor Lead

LAVA Development Team

Alexander Aghili

Josh Anibal

Chase Ashby

Francois Cadieux

Timothy Chau

Chris DeGrendele

Ercan Dumlupinar

Luis Fernandes

James Jensen

James Koch

Brandon Lowe

Nguyen Ly

Olivia Martin

David Craig Penner

Kiran Ravikumar

Bram Rodgers

Victor Sousa