15 Facts About Maria Zuber

Maria T Zuber was born on June 27,1958 and is an American geophysicist who is the E A Griswold Professor of Geophysics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a current trustee of Brown University.

Maria Zuber was the principal investigator for the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory Mission, which was managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Since January 2021, Maria Zuber serves as co-chair of President Joe Biden's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

Maria Zuber was previously a member of the National Science Board.

Maria T Zuber was born on June 27,1958, in Norristown, Pennsylvania.

Maria Zuber grew up in Summit Hill, Pennsylvania, in Pennsylvania's Coal Region, one of five children of Joseph and Dolores Zuber.

Maria Zuber later worked at Johns Hopkins University and was a research scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland.

Maria Zuber joined the faculty of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995 and was the head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences from 2003 to 2012.

Maria Zuber was the first woman to lead a science department at MIT.

Maria Zuber's professional focus has been on the structure and tectonics of solid solar system objects.

Maria Zuber is a pioneer in the measurement of the shapes of the surfaces of the inner planets, and in interpreting what those shapes mean for internal structure and dynamics, thermal history, and surface-atmosphere interactions.

Maria Zuber specializes in using gravity and laser altimetry measurements to determine interior structure and evolution.

Maria Zuber has been a team member on 10 NASA planetary missions, including Mars Global Surveyor, Dawn, and MESSENGER.

Maria Zuber became interested in planetary science at an early age.

In January 2021, Maria Zuber was appointed co-chair of President-elect Joe Biden's President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.