Kristofer Drozd

Kristofer Drozd was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona. He earned his bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Arizona in the spring of 2015. Kris started his pursuit of a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering at the U of A in August 2015 and began working part-time on the OSIRIS-REx mission as a member of the Science Planning Team. His duty's included helping with the testing of stereophotoclinometry software for optical navigation and the engineering of attitude coordinates for the spacecraft.

In the Summer of 2019, Kris left the OSIRIS-REx mission and joined the Space Systems Engineering Laboratory full-time. His research interests include guidance, navigation, and control of aerospace vehicles as well as numerical methods for optimal control.