Career Chats: Dr. Whizin (Planetary Research Scientist)

Space Club Career Chat Guest: Dr. Akbar Whizin

Current Job: Planetary Research Scientist at Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, Texas

Research areas include:
🚀Technologies to support space mining on the Moon to eventually 3D print roads and walls using lunar regolith while extracting valuable resources
🚀Collecting and studying samples from asteroids
🚀Creating maps of the lunar surface using a UV imager
🚀Saturn’s Rings

Bachelors in Astrophysics from University of California Santa Cruz and a PhD in Physics from the University of Central Florida

Hobbies: loves the outdoors including going to the beach, snowboarding, and rock climbing.

Click here to learn about Dr. Whizin: akbarwhizin.com