Greg Rieker is a Professor and Vogel Family Faculty Fellow in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder. He leads the Precision Laser Diagnostics Laboratory, which aims to understand and improve energy, industrial, and atmospheric systems through laser-based sensing. In particular, the laboratory has spent a decade adapting Nobel prize winning frequency comb laser technology into robust sensors to address emerging challenges, including detecting methane emissions across hundreds of square miles of oil and gas infrastructure, designing hypersonic propulsion systems, and exploring exoplanet atmospheres.

Greg earned a BS from the Missouri University of Science and Technology, and MS and PhD degrees from Stanford University. He has affiliations with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Greg received the NSF CAREER award, the Peter Werle and Hiroshi Tsuji Early Career Scientist Awards, and the Colorado Governor’s Award for High-impact Research.  He is a senior member of the National Academy of Inventors, and co-founder and CTO of LongPath Technologies, Inc.