Cristina Riso is an Assistant Professor in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech. She is part of the Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics Group and of the Vertical Lift Research Center of Excellence.
Her research involves developing computational models and analysis methods to study aeroelastic phenomena in the next generation of aerospace vehicles, focusing on both advancing the understanding of new configurations and supporting their design.
She is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and of the Vertical Flight Society (VFS). She serves on the AIAA Structural Dynamics Technical Committee and is part of the Third Aeroelastic Prediction Workshop (AePW3) Large Deflection Working Group.
Before joining Georgia Tech, Riso was a Research Fellow in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, where she worked in the Airbus-Michigan Center for Aero-Servo-Elasticity of Very Flexible Aircraft and the Active Aeroelasticity and Structures Research Laboratory.
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In addition to serving as the department chair, Dr. Margaret A. Weitekamp curates the Museum’s social and cultural history of spaceflight collection, more than 5,000 artifacts that include space memorabilia and space science fiction objects. These everyday mementos of the space age—which include toys and games, medals and awards, buttons and pins, as well as comics and trading cards—complete the story about spaceflight told by the Museum’s collection of space hardware and technologies.
Weitekamp earned a BA from the University of Pittsburgh and an MA and PhD in history from Cornell University. During her graduate work, she was a Mellon fellow in the humanities and spent a year in residence at the NASA Headquarters History Office in Washington, D.C. as the American Historical Association / NASA Aerospace History Fellow. Before joining the Smithsonian, Weitekamp taught in the Women’s Studies Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York.
She is the author of numerous scholar articles as well as Right Stuff, Wrong Sex: America’s First Women in Space Program, which won the Eugene M. Emme Award for Astronautical Literature from the American Astronautical Society. In addition, she wrote an award-winning children’s picture book Pluto’s Secret: An Icy World’s Tale of Discovery (Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2013), in collaboration with David DeVorkin and illustrated by Diane Kidd. With Anne Collins Goodyear, she co-edited the ninth volume in the Artefacts series on the material culture of science and technology, Analyzing Art and Aesthetics (Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2013). She is currently completing a new book project, a social and cultural history of space memorabilia.
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Guillermo Jenaro Rabadan is the Project Executive of the Advanced Digital Design and Manufacturing (ADAM) project at Acubed. He has worked in aerospace for nearly 20 years in various roles with progressive responsibilities across Airbus Engineering and Innovation teams. Prior to joining Acubed, Guillermo led multinational teams in flight physics, R&T programs and worked in various areas of engineering such as flight controls and crashworthiness. Guillermo is a polyglot and global citizen with proficiency in all four of the languages core to Airbus’ work (German, French, Spanish and English) and he holds three masters degrees, including a Masters in Aerospace, Physics and Astrophysics and is a Stanford alumnus of the prestigious Executive Program. Guillermo is also an accomplished musician, having learned the piano before learning to speak, and has achieved the rank of piano grand amateur.
