Education
She also earned Sc.M. and Doctor of Philosophy degrees, both in geophysics, from Brown University.
She also earned Sc.M. and Doctor of Philosophy degrees, both in geophysics, from Brown University.
Zuber has been involved in more than half a dozen National Aeronautics and Space Administration planetary missions aimed at mapping the Moon, Mars, Mercury, and several asteroids. She is currently the principal investigator for the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) Mission, which is managed by National Aeronautics and Space Administration"s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Zuber received her Bachelor of Arts in astronomy and geology from the University of Pennsylvania.
Zuber later worked at Johns Hopkins University and served as a research scientist at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.
She joined the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998 and was the chair of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences from 2003 to 2012. She is the first woman to lead a science department at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 2012, she has been Vice President for Research at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Zuber"s professional focus has been on the structure and tectonics of solid solar system objects.
She specializes in using gravity and laser altimetry measurements to determine interior structure and evolution. She has been a team member on 10 National Aeronautics and Space Administration planetary missions, including Mars Global Surveyor, Dawn, and MESSENGER. Zuber became interested in planetary science at an early age.
A desire to spread her childhood enthusiasm was one reason why she teamed up with former astronaut Sally Ride to include in the GRAIL mission components that would capture the imagination of young students.
A student contest provided the names for the mission"s two spacecraft, Ebb and Flow, and students can sign up to use GRAIL"s Moon Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students (MoonKAM) instrument. American Geophysical Union American Association for the Advancement of Science American Astronomical Society, Division for Planetary Sciences American Astronautical Society Geological Society of America.
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Zuber is a member of the following professional societies:.