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Maria Zuber | |
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| Co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology | |
| Assumed office January 20, 2021 Serving with Frances Arnold and Francis Collins | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Personal details | |
| Born | June 27, 1958 Norristown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Education | University of Pennsylvania (BS) Brown University (MS, PhD) |
| Awards | NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Planetary science |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Unstable Deformation in Layered Media: Application to Planetary Lithospheres (1986) |
| Doctoral advisor | E. M. Parmentier |
Maria T. Zuber (born June 27, 1958) is an American geophysicist who is the vice president for research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she also holds the position of the E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.[1] Zuber has been involved in more than half a dozen NASA planetary missions aimed at mapping the Moon, Mars, Mercury, and several asteroids. She was the principal investigator for the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) Mission, which was managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.[2]
Since January 2021, Zuber serves as co-chair of President Joe Biden's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). She was previously a member of the National Science Board.[3]
- ^ "Maria Zuber Vitae". MIT. Retrieved October 16, 2012.
- ^ "Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory: Biography -- Maria Zuber". NASA. Retrieved July 15, 2021.[dead link]
- ^ "National Science Board". National Science Board. Retrieved July 15, 2021.