Maria Zuber

Maria Zuber

Maria T. Zuber is the E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she also leads the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. Zuber has been involved in more than half a dozen NASA planetary missions aimed at mapping the Moon, Mars, Mercury, and several asteroids. Along with Fiona Harrision, a physics professor at the California Institute of Technology, Zuber is one first women to be named scientific leader of her own NASA robotic space mission and was named one of America's Best Leaders in 2008 by U.S. News & World Report.[1]

She received her B.A. in astrophysics from the University of Pennsylvania and Sc.M. and Ph.D. in geophysics from Brown University. She was on the faculty at Johns Hopkins University and served as a research scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. She received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Brown University in 2008. She is the principal investigator for the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) Mission being managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She was awarded the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal in 2004.[2]

She is a member of the following professional societies:[3]

Publications

Link to a list of pending and current publications

External links

References

  1. ^ http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/best-leaders/2008/11/19/americas-best-leaders-fiona-harrison-and-maria-zuber-nasa-scientists.html
  2. ^ "Maria's CV". Geodyn.mit.edu. http://www-geodyn.mit.edu/mtzcv.html. Retrieved 2010-07-31. 
  3. ^ http://www-geodyn.mit.edu/mtzcv.html



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