Amara Graps

Professional History

Dr. Graps received her PhD in 2001 in Physics from the University of Heidelberg where she studied Io revealed in the Jovian dust streams. She was a computational physicist for 18 years before she earned her PhD. She has worked in twelve astronomy research teams since 1982, coordinated three research teams since 2009, and more in submitted proposals. In her ESA and NASA missions support, work, she has analyzed data from the New Horizons space mission, Rosetta spacecraft, Ulysses spacecraft, GORID/Express spacecraft, Cassini spacecraft, Galileo spacecraft, SOHO spacecraft, NASA's Kuiper Airborne Observatory, NASA's ER-2 aircraft, the Voyager 2 spacecraft, the Pioneer Venus Orbiter spacecraft, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), the Space Shuttle's SpaceLab 2, and ground-based telescopes in Hawaii, California, and Arizona. Additionally, The data includes calibration star cluster fields, dust from Saturn's and Jupiter's magnetosphere and Earth's geostationary orbit, the Sun, Comet Shoemaker- Levy 9, Comet Halley, Supernova 1987a, Venus, Mars, Io, Mercury, the Moon, Saturn's and Uranus' rings, asteroids, Earth's atmosphere, protostars, molecular clouds, galaxies, novas, main-sequence stars, and the exhaust-cloud around the Space Shuttle. NASA Group Achievement Award to the Rosetta Alice Instrument Team NASA Group Achievement Award to the Dawn Payload Team ESA Certificate of Outstanding Contribution to the ESA Rosetta Mission ESA Recognition of Outstanding Contribution to the the Alice Team on the Rosetta Mission