• Brooke Owens Fellow, Class of 2019

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ph.D. Aeronautics and Astronautics, ‘26

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.S. Aeronautics and Astronautics, ‘23

• University of Colorado Boulder, B.S. Aerospace Engineering Sciences & B.S. Applied Mathematics, '21

• Host Institution: SpaceX

• Mentor: Nick Skytland

Mich Lin is a third-year graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Their research is in space architecture, specifically aiming to understand the human experience in isolate, confined, and extreme environments and how to design architecture to enable exploration. Mich will be working in Copenhagen in 2023 for GXN, an innovative architecture studio.

As a Brooke Owens Fellow, Mich worked at SpaceX on the Crew Dragon Mechanisms team. During their time there, they supported three missions, drank a lot of smoothies, and watched five launches from HQ. Mich later worked on space architecture concepts at Blue Origin in 2020 as a Matt Isakowitz Fellow, on space medicine and research for the Polaris Dawn mission at SpaceX in 2022, and on habitability in analog environments at NASA Johnson Space Center in 2023.

Their undergraduate degrees were in Aerospace Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics from the University of Colorado Boulder. They have been recognized for their professional achievements and community involvement with the AIAA 20 Twenties (2020), the Women in Aerospace Scholarship (2019), the Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship (2020), the AIAA Neil Armstrong Scholarship (2022), and the NASA Space Technology Graduate Research Opportunity Fellowship (2022).

Outside of their professional pursuits, they like to be in the ocean, taking film photos, brunching, making ceramics, or adventuring in a new city.