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Dr. Erica Rodgers leads Science and Technology Partnerships within NASA’s Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy. Rodgers establishes government-wide collaboration frameworks in technology areas where interagency teamwork is beneficial and performs analysis to inform NASA’s strategy development in areas of critical National importance. Rodgers previously served as an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Langley Research Center, where she performed systems analysis of Mars exploration architectures. Prior to joining NASA, Rodgers worked in academia for 16 years. Rodgers taught astronomy and astrophysics at several colleges and universities, performed research of solar X-rays and their impact on Earth’s upper atmosphere and of dust grain environments surrounding forming stars, and developed and launched science instrumentation. Rodgers worked in the aerospace industry for three years in parallel with conducting research, in systems engineering and satellite operations. Rodgers received her PhD in space physics from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and her BS and MS in aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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