Michael M. Watkins

Director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL)

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Michael M. Watkins Biography

Dr. Michael M. Watkins became Director of JPL on July 1, 2016. In this role he also serves as a vice president of the California Institute of Technology, which staffs and manages JPL for NASA. Watkins, an engineer and scientist, previously was on the staff of JPL for 22 years. In 2015-16 he spent a year at the University of Texas at Austin, where he held the Clare Cockrell Williams Chair in Engineering and was director of the university’s Center for Space Research. Watkins served as project scientist for the GRACE, GRAIL and GRACE Follow-On missions. He was an originator of the concept for the GRACE mission, which uses a pair of Earth-orbiting satellites to make detailed measurements of Earth's gravity field anomalies.

Watkins holds bachelor’s, master’s and Ph.D. degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He has published in both engineering and science, contributed more than 100 conference presentations, and serves or served on the boards of numerous international scientific and engineering societies. In addition, he has taught estimation, filtering theory and system engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and at Caltech.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 09/05/2024.

Michael M. Watkins Videos

  • The Mars 2020 Mission and Robotic Exploration at JPL / Caltech
    Over the last 50 years, JPL spacecraft have visited every planet in our solar system, and we have had continuous robotic presence on the surface of...
  • Michael Watkins Interview with Evan Smith
    His feet may be on the ground, but his head is definitely on another planet. For the Mars mission, Dr. Watkins' team provided trajectory design,...

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