| Description | Dr. Kurt Polzin received his B.S. in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from The Ohio State University, Columbus, in 1999 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ in 2006, where he was a National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellow. Since 2004, he has been with NASA’s George C. Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, AL, as a Propulsion Research Scientist with the Propulsion Research and Development Laboratory. He is presently the space systems team lead for the advanced concepts office at MSFC. Dr. Polzin is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). He is currently the Director for the Southeastern Region of AIAA and is a member of the AIAA Electric Propulsion Technical Committee. He is also a Senior Member of IEEE and has been a technical planning committee member for the International Electric Propulsion Conference and the JANNAF Spacecraft Propulsion Subcommittee meetings. |
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