M. de Soria-Santacruz

Maria de Soria-Santacruz Pich received a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT in 2014. During 2014 she was a Postdoctoral Scholar at UCLA working on the development of an energetic particle detector for the ELFIN satellite and on the analysis of Van Allen Probes data. She joined JPL in 2015, where she has worked on the definition of space radiation environments, she has supported radiation analyses and testing for multiple instruments, and she was a member of the PDP development team. In 2017, she joined the Psyche project as a Payload Systems Engineer for the magnetometer instrument. Her interests include space environments, particles and fields instrumentation, and space systems.