Emilie "Mia" Siochi Senior Scientist, Advanced Materials Processing Branch, NASA Langley Research Center

Mia Siochi is a senior materials scientist in the Advanced Materials and Processing Branch at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia.  Her research interest is largely around high performance aerospace materials, especially emerging technologies such as structural nanomaterial systems, bioinspired materials, engineered materials and surfaces, energy harvesting, additive manufacturing and extreme environment materials.  Over the last couple of decades, she has advocated for multidisciplinary research that couple computational modeling with experimentation to accelerate the insertion of emerging technologies into the materials ecosystem.  Mia holds a BS in Chemistry from the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, a MS in Chemistry and a PhD in Materials Engineering Science both from Virginia Tech.