Julio Magalhães was appointed on April 2, 2002 to serve on the Hearing Board in the Public Member category. Dr. Magalhães is an expert on the climate of planetary atmospheres and has extensive experience in the area of atmospheric physics.

His accomplishments include a key role in NASA's Mars Pathfinder Mission and direction of public outreach for NASA's Galileo Probe Mission to Jupiter. He is currently an independent consulting scientist. Previously, he worked for 15 years for NASA on planetary meteorology research as well as public and educational outreach; he has also taught astronomy at the college level.

Dr. Magalhães holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Astronomy with a Meteorology emphasis from Cornell University, and a B.S. in Physics from Stanford University.