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Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Manan Arya

Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Manan Arya leads the Morphing Space Structures Lab. His research is on shape-changing structures, including spacecraft structures that are folded for launch and then unfolded in space, and also morphing robots. Previously, he was a technologist in the Advanced Deployable Structures Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which is managed for NASA by Caltech.

Education

PhD, California Institute of Technology (2016)
Masters, California Institute of Technology (2012)
BASc in Engineering Science, University of Toronto (2011)