Dr. Bent Ehresmann is a Senior Research Analyst in the Department of Solar and Heliospheric Physics. A native of Kiel, Germany, Dr. Ehresmann has earned a diploma in physics and a Ph.D. in natural sciences with a focus on extraterrestrial physics from his alma mater, the Christian-Albrechts-University zu Kiel in Germany. He has been involved in the development and operation of the Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) operating on NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars since 2009. After earning his Ph.D. Dr. Ehresmann joined SwRI in the summer of 2012, right before the Curiosity rover landed in Gale crater on Mars. Since joining SwRI, he has been acting as the operations and data archiving lead and Co-Science lead for the RAD instrument. Dr. Ehresmann is also the Instrument Scientist for the Mini-FND instrument that was selected as part of the LEIA instrument suite to land on the lunar surface with NASA’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) CP22 mission in October 2027. As RAD data archiving lead, he is also heavily involved in efforts to provide easy access to near real-time RAD data from Mars to the public and the broader scientific community via NASA’s CDAWeb and ISWA interfaces. Dr. Ehresmann has received multiple NASA Group Achievement Awards for his contributions to NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission and he has more than 15 years of experience and expertise in research related to space weather and human exploration of the inner heliosphere, the moon, and Mars.