DellaGiustina Joins Faculty as Assistant Professor

DellaGiustina Joins Faculty as Assistant Professor

Dr. Daniella DellaGiustina will join LPL as an Assistant Professor this January (2022).

Dani is Deputy Principal Investigator for the OSIRIS-REx mission, responsible for oversight of extended mission activities. Previous to being named Deputy PI, Dani served as the mission’s Image Processing Lead Scientist. Dani is an alumna of the University of Arizona, where she earned a B.S. in Physics and Ph.D. in Geosciences. She also holds an M.S. in Computational Physics from the University of Alaska. As an undergraduate at UArizona, Dani minored in planetary sciences at LPL and was an Arizona NASA Space Grant intern. Her Space Grant project on characterizing mineral phases in meteorites was supervised by Dante Lauretta, now Principal Investigator for OSIRIS-REx. Dani continued to work at LPL with Dante Lauretta and Michael Drake, leading a student experiment on the Phase A Discovery OSIRIS Mission until the end of her undergraduate career. In graduate school, she fused remotely-sensed observations of Earth’s cryosphere with the numerical modeling techniques to understand the dynamics of the Greenland ice sheet. Her Ph.D. dissertation was on the subject of Signal Processing of Seismic and Image Data for Planetary Exploration. In her spare time, Dani is an avid rock-climber and outdoor enthusiast.