Ciro Lopez, Ph.D.

Out in the field you’re closer to the issues and you do see how some of your things make it into the big system called 'Navy'.

Dr. Ciro Lopez, CNA’s Field Representative to the Commander of the Electronic Attack Wing, Pacific Fleet (CVWP) has been a part of wide range of analysis initiatives at CNA, including: providing counter-IED analysis and analytic support to the joint IED defeat organization, assisting in a project to study various command and control schemes for a distributed Electronic Warfare (EW) capabilities within the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) structure, assisting in the development of a test plan for submarine information operations, supporting the 6th Fleet regional exercise, Phoenix Express (concentrating on Maritime Interdiction Operations among NATO and North African Countries), facilitating an Avian Influenza table-top exercise simulating an H5N1 outbreak, involvement in a Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) analysis under the Tactical Air Umbrella project, and in the development of a CNA-annotated brief dealing with the application of war gaming techniques and technologies to support the modeling and simulation community of interest for the Global Information Grid (GIG).

Prior to joining CNA as a Research Analyst in 2005, Lopez was a graduate research student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and served as a summer research associate at Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company (2002) and at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies (1996 & 1997). He was also a Research Assistant in the Chemistry Department of Florida State University, 1993-1999 working in the areas of environmental nuclear chemistry and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy.

Lopez earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a B.S. Chemistry, minor in Physics and Math, from Florida State University.  He was a 2003 Alfred P. Sloan Scholar at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a Ph.D. Science Fellow with National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering & Science (2002-2003), a Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need (GAANN) fellow at UNC-Chapel Hill (2001- 2002), and a Brautlecht Chemistry Scholar at Florida State University (1996-1997).  (Click here to see an interview of Dr. Lopez.)