• Brooke Owens Fellow, Class of 2017

• University of Colorado Boulder, Ph.D. Aerospace Engineering Sciences, ‘23

• Coe College, B.A. Physics, ‘18

• Host Institution: Planetary Resources, Inc.

• Mentor: Cassie Lee

Dahlia Baker graduated from Coe College with a Physics Major in 2018 and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at the University of Colorado at Boulder in Aerospace Engineering. As a graduate student, she earned a NASA Pathways internship with the Navigation and Mission Design Branch at Goddard Space Flight Center.

As a Brooke Owens Fellow, Dahlia worked at Planetary Resources, where she investigated methods of building three-dimensional models of asteroids with limited imaging technology. Dahlia’s job involved computer vision analysis, data handling, and planetary science.

Dahlia plans graduate with a PhD and work at NASA in order to continue studying local planetary bodies and the technologies we use to get to them. She aspires to make the solar system more accessible.