Eric Leuliette is the chief of the Ocean Topography and Cryosphere Branch at the Center for Satellite Applications and Research. He joined the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in 2007 as a Research Oceanographer at the Laboratory for Satellite Altimetry. Prior to joining NOAA, he was an Assistant Research Professor at the Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research at the University of Colorado. He received a BSc in Physics from Carnegie Mellon University, an MSc and PhD in Physics from the University of Colorado in Boulder. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Texas’s Center for Space Research in Austin. He was an Environmental Health Specialist for the Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) Health Department and Assistant Director of the National Youth Science Camp. As the NOAA Jason/Sentinel-6 Program Scientist and Project Scientist, he co-chairs the Ocean Surface Topography Science Team. He has been a member of the NOAA Water Team, the NASA Sea Level Change Team, the GRACE Science Team, the Sentinel-3 Validation Team, the ESA CryoSat Team, the AltiKa Science Team, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group I. He was a recipient of a NOAA Administrator’s Award in 2012 and a Bronze Medal in 2018.