Maria T. Zuber is the E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she also leads the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences. Zuber has been involved in more than half a dozen NASA planetary missions aimed at mapping the Moon, Mars, Mercury, and several asteroid s. Along with Fiona Harrision, a physics professor at the California Institute of Technology, Zuber is one first women to be named scientific leader of her own NASA robotic space mission and was named one of America's Best Leaders in 2008 by U.S. News & World Report.
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