The Space Scholars Program Mentors List

C. Nick Arge received his B.S. in Physics at the University of Arizona in 1985, an M.S. degree in Physics at the University of Minnesota in 1988, and a Ph... See Entire Biography

Brandon Arritt is the Section Chief for the Integrated Strutcural Systems Team. He received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Air Force Academy in 1998, and a Masters in Mech Eng from the George Washington University in 1999... See Entire Biography

Mr. Keith Allan Avery is a Senior Engineer in the Space Vehicles Directorate of the U. S. Air Force Research Laboratory located at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico... See Entire Biography

K. S. Balasubramaniam is a Senior Research Astrophysicist at the AFRL/Solar Disturbances Predictions Section, at Sunspot, NM... See Entire Biography

For the past 4 years, Jeremy Banik has been leading research efforts in the areas of large deployable antenna reflectors, solar sail systems, and CubeSat deployable payloads for the Space Vehicles Directorate... See Entire Biography

Mr. Boyarko is a research engineer with the Space Vehicles Directorate, Simulation and Technology Assessment Branch at the Air Force Research Laboratory... See Entire Biography

Dr. Sam Cable received a B.S. in physics from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1985, and a Ph... See Entire Biography

Dr. Frank Chavez is a Research Aerospace Engineer in the Space Vehicles Directorate of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory located at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico... See Entire Biography

Yu-Hui Chiu received a B. S. degree in Chemistry from Soochow University, Taiwan, in 1986, and the Ph... See Entire Biography

Dr. David Cooke has been a research scientist with AFRL at Hanscom AFB, MA, since 1985. Prior to coming to AFRL, he was employed at Maxwell Technologies of San Diego, CA where he worked on the development of numerical fluid and plasma simulation software for space and automotive applications... See Entire Biography

Dr. James Dodd is a Research Chemist in the Battlespace Environment Division at Hanscom AFB. Dr. Dodd received a B... See Entire Biography

Chris Dodson received a M.S. in Applied Mathematic in 2000 and a M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2003 from the University of New Mexico... See Entire Biography

Derek Doyle is the Symbiotic Structures Thrust lead within the Integrated Strutcural Systems Team. He received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMT) in 2007, and a Masters in Mech Eng from NMT in 2008... See Entire Biography

Mr. Hans-Peter Dumm is an Engineer in the Structures Group within the Space Vehicles Directorate. He received his B... See Entire Biography

Arthur Edwards has a Ph. D. in Solid State Physics (Lehigh University, 1981), with a specialty in electronic structure calculations... See Entire Biography

Brian Engberg received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering and a B.S. in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1994; he received a M... See Entire Biography

R. Scott Erwin received a B. S. in Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1991, and the M... See Entire Biography

Stephen Forbes is a Research Aerospace Engineer in the Space Vehicles Directorate of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory located at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico... See Entire Biography

Adam Fosbury received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering in 2003, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2005 and a Ph... See Entire Biography

Dr. Jennifer Gardner received her A. B. degree in Chemistry from Harvard University in 1994 and a Ph... See Entire Biography

Dr. John E. Higgins is a Research Aerospace Engineer in the Space Based Sensing and Protection Branch within the Space Vehicles Directorate of the U... See Entire Biography

Jeff Holmes is a research physicist in the Space Vehicles Directorate of the U. S. Air Force Research Laboratory at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts... See Entire Biography

Alex Howard received a B. S. and Ph. D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Utah... See Entire Biography

Dr. Moriba K. Jah received his B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, Arizona... See Entire Biography

Janet Johnston is a graduate of MIT and currently a Physicist at the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate, Space Weather Center of Excellence, at Hanscom AFB, MA... See Entire Biography

Dr. George Y Jumper, Jr is a Supervisory Research Aerospace Engineer in the Battlespace Surveillance Innovation Center in the Space Vehicles Directorate of the US Air Force Research Laboratory at Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts... See Entire Biography

Joshua Keener is an officer in the United States Air Force working as a developmental engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland AFB... See Entire Biography

Dr. Kendra is currently a Research Physicist at the Air Force Research Laboratory at the Battlespace Surveillance Innovation Center where he works on the Space Object Surveillance Technologies Program... See Entire Biography

Kathleen Kraemer received a B.S. in Astronomy from the California Institute of Technology in 1990, and M... See Entire Biography

Seth L. Lacy earned B.S. degrees in Physics and Aeronautical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1997... See Entire Biography

Frederick Aaron Leve is a Research Aerospace Engineer in the Guidance Navigation and Controls group... See Entire Biography

Dr. Thomas Alan Lovell is a Research Aerospace Engineer in the Spacecraft Component Technology Branch within the Space Vehicles Directorate of the U... See Entire Biography

Clay Mayberry is the Electronics Foundations Research Group Leader within the Space Electronics Branch of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate (AFRL/RVSE) at Kirtland Air Force Base New Mexico... See Entire Biography

Capt Doug McFarland obtained his B.S. degree from Syracuse University in 2003 and was immediately commissioned into the United States Air Force by way of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps... See Entire Biography

Dr. Thomas Murphey has been leading the research and development of space deployable structures technologies at the Space Vehicles Directorate for the last five years... See Entire Biography

Mr. Norquist has contributed to the development and testing of regional and global scale numerical weather prediction (NWP) models for over 22 years... See Entire Biography

Dr. Daniel Ober is a research scientist in the Space Weather Center of Excellence of the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory located at Hanscom Air Force Base in Massachusetts... See Entire Biography

Erin Pettyjohn received a B.S. with distinction in Physics and Astronomy from the Virginia Military Institute in 2001 as well as a VA Senate Joint Resolution No 412 for outstanding leadership, and an M... See Entire Biography

Dr. Khanh Pham is a technical advisor of the Decision Support Systems program at the Advanced Spacecraft Component Technologies branch, AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico... See Entire Biography

Andrew Pineda is a Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of New Mexico on assignment to U... See Entire Biography

Thomas Roberts is a doctoral candidate at Georgia Institute of Technology in the School of Mechanical Engineering... See Entire Biography

Ashwani Sharma received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Mexico in 2004... See Entire Biography

Dr. Ramesh Sharma has been working at Hanscom AFB since 1976. He has published over 125 papers in refereed scientific journals... See Entire Biography

Dr. Matthew B. Squires is a research physicist in the Cold Atom group in the Space Vehicles Directorate of the U... See Entire Biography

Nathan B. Stastny is a member of the Astrodynamics/Guidance, Navigation, & Control Team within the Simulation and Technology Assessment Branch of the Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, NM... See Entire Biography

Dr. Jaime Stearns is a Research Chemist in the Battlespace Environment Division at Hanscom AFB. Dr... See Entire Biography

Abbie Stovall received a B. S. and M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Missouri - Rolla in 2005 and 2007, respectively... See Entire Biography

Dr. Eric Sutton is a Research Physicist in the Space Weather Center of Excellence within the Space Vehicles Directorate of the U... See Entire Biography

Al Viggiano received a B. S. in Chemistry from University of California of Berkeley in 1976 and a Ph... See Entire Biography

Mr. Andrew Williams received a B. S. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A & M University in 2002 and a M... See Entire Biography

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