The Planning and Execution of Human Missions to the Moon and Mars

Dr. Michelle Poliskie is a Principal Engineer in the Materials Department at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California. She has held a number of management and technical positions over the last 15 years for both device and material manufacturers. During her career, she has specialized in the failure analysis, design, development, scale-up, and reliability testing of polymeric materials used in electronic applications. Dr. Poliskie is a former lecturer at Johns Hopkins University where she taught polymer synthesis, commercial formulations, and characterization techniques. She holds a BA in Economics and a BA in Chemistry (with honors), both from Grinnell College. Her PhD is from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Polymer Science. She was the recipient of a National Research Council fellowship and has authored two books: one on polymeric packaging (Solar Module Packaging: Polymeric Requirements and Selection, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2011) and another on solar module manufacturing (Solar Manufacturing: Environmental Design Concepts for Solar Modules, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2013).