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Staff
Michael Moloney, Director
Alan Angleman, Senior Program Officer
Carmela J. Chamberlain, Administrative Coordinator
Dwayne Day, Senior Program Officer
Paul Jackson, Program Officer
Maureen Mellody, Program Officer
Celeste A. Naylor, Information Management Associate
Amanda Thibault, Research Associate
Tanja E. Pilzak, Manager, Program Operations
Andrea Rebholz, Program Associate
Christina Shipman, Financial Officer
John Wendt, Senior Program Officer
Sandra Wilson, Senior Financial Assistant
ASEB Staff
Michael Moloney is the Director of the Space Studies Board and the Aeronautical and Space Engineering Board at the National Research Council of the National Academies. Since joining the NRC in 2001, Dr. Moloney has served as a Study Director at the National Materials Advisory Board (NMAB), the Board on Physics and Astronomy(BPA), the Board on Manufacturing and Engineering Design (BMED), and the Center for Economic, Governance, and International Studies(CEGIS). Before joining the SSB and ASEB in January 2010, Dr. Moloney was Associate Director of the BPA and Study Director for the Astro2010 decadal survey for Astronomy and Astrophysics. With ten years experience at the NRC Dr. Moloney has served as study director or senior staff for a series of reports that includes: Controlling the Quantum World – The Science of Atoms, Molecules, and Photons; Selling the Nation’s Helium Reserve; Connecting Quarks with the Cosmos – Eleven Science Questions for the New Century; Funding Smithsonian Scientific Research; Frontiers in High Energy Density Physics; Burning Plasma: Bringing a Star to Earth; Managing Materials for a 21st Century Military; Assessment of Corrosion Education; Globalization of Materials R&D; A Matter of Size – Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative; A Path to the Next Generation of US Banknotes – Keeping Them Real; A Review of the Federal Strategy for Nanotechnology-Related Environmental, Health and Safety Research;and Analyzing the U.S. Content of Imports and the Foreign Content of Exports. In addition to his professional experience at the National Academies, Dr. Moloney has over seven years experience as a foreign-service officer for the Irish government and has served at the Irish Embassy in Washington, the Irish Mission to the United Nations in New York, and the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin, Ireland, in that capacity. A physicist, Dr. Moloney did his graduate PhD work at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. He received his undergraduate degree in Experimental Physics at University College Dublin, where he was awarded the Nevin Medal for Physics. Back to top Alan Angleman has been a senior program officer for the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (ASEB) since 1993, directing studies on the modernization of the U.S. air transportation system, system engineering and design systems, aviation weather systems, aircraft certification standards and procedures, commercial supersonic aircraft, the safety of space launch systems, radioisotope power systems, cost growth of NASA Earth and space science missions, and other aspects of aeronautics and space research and technology. Previously, Mr. Angleman worked for consulting firms in the Washington area providing engineering support services to the Department of Defense and NASA Headquarters. His professional career began with the U.S. Navy, where he served for nine years as a nuclear-trained submarine officer. He has a B.S. in engineering physics from the U.S. Naval Academy and an M.S. in applied physics from the Johns Hopkins University. Back to top Carmela J. Chamberlain has worked for the National Academies since 1974. She started as a senior project assistant in the Institute for Laboratory Animals for Research, which is now a board in the Division on Earth and Life Sciences, where she worked for 2 years, then transferred to the Space Science Board, which is now the Space Studies Board (SSB). She is now an administrative coordinator with the SSB. Back to top Catherine Gruber is an editor with the Space Studies Board and the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board. She joined the SSB as a senior program assistant in 1995. Ms. Gruber first came to the NRC in 1988 as a senior secretary for the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board and has also worked as an outreach assistant for the National Academy of Sciences-Smithsonian Institution’s National Science Resources Center. She was a research assistant (chemist) in the National Institute of Mental Health’s Laboratory of Cell Biology for two years. She has a B.A. in natural science from St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Back to top
Dwayne Day joined the Space Studies Board in 2005. He has served as the staff officer and study director for NRC studies on: the assessment of space radiation hazards to astronauts, the future of NASA’s workforce, NASA’s performance in solar system exploration, and on options for the next New Frontiers mission selection. He has a Ph.D. in political science from The George Washington University, specializing in space and national security policy. Dr. Day is the author of Lightning Rod, a history of the Air Force chief scientist’s office; has co-edited or edited several books and journal issues, and has written on American civil and military space policy and history. Prior to joining the SSB, he worked as an investigator for the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. Prior to that, he worked for the Congressional Budget Office and at George Washington University’s Space Policy Institute. Paul Jackson is a program officer for the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the National Academies. He joined the Academies in 2006 and was previously the DEPS media relations contact for the Office of News and Public Information. He is the study director for a number of ASEB’s current projects, including the Committee to Assess NASA’s NAOMS Project and proposal review projects sponsored by the Ohio Department of Development. Paul earned a B.A. in philosophy from Michigan State University in December 2002 and an M.P.A in policy analysis, economic development, and comparative international affairs from Indiana University in 2006. Back to top Celeste A. Naylor is an information management associate for the Aeroanutics and Space Engineering Board and the Space Studies Board. She joined the NRC in June 2002 as a senior project assistant for the Space Studies Board. She has worked with the Committee on Assessment of Options to Extend the Life of the Hubble Space Telescope, the Committee on Astronomy and Astrophysics, the Committee on Microgravity Research and the Task Group on Research on the International Space Station. Ms. Naylor is a member of the Society of Government Meeting Professionals and has more than nine years of experience in event management.
Amanda Thibault joined the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board as a research associate in 2011. Ms. Thibault is a graduate of Creighton University where she earned her B.S. in Atmospheric Science in 2008. From there she went on to Texas Tech University where she studied lightning trends in tornadic and non-tornadic supercell thunderstorms and worked as a teaching and research assistant. She participated in the VORTEX 2 field project from 2009-2010 and graduated with a M.S. in Atmospheric Science from Texas Tech in August 2010. She is also a member of the American Meteorological Society. Back to top Tanja Pilzak is the manager of program operations for the the Aeroanutics and Space Engineering Board and the Space Studies Board. She comes to the board from the Division on Earth and Life Studies where she was a research associate for five years in the Board on Earth Sciences and Resources and the Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources. Prior to becoming a research associate, Ms. Pilzak was a proposal specialist and a contract assistant in the Office of Contracts and Grants for three years as. She holds an M.S. in environmental management from the University of Maryland University College and a B.S. in natural resources management from the University of Maryland College Park. Back to top Maureen Mellody has been a program officer with the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board since 2002, where she has worked on studies related to NASA’s aeronautics research and development program, servicing options for the Hubble Space Telescope, and other projects in space and aeronautics. Previously, she served as the 2001-2002 AIP Congressional Science Fellow in the office of Congressman Howard L. Berman (D-CA), focusing on intellectual property and technology transfer. Maureen also worked as a post-doctoral research scientist at the University of Michigan in 2001. Maureen received a Ph.D. in applied physics from the University of Michigan in 2000, an M.S. in applied physics from the University of Michigan in 1997, and a B.S. in physics in 1995 from Virginia Tech. Her research specialties include acoustics and audio signal processing. Back to top Andrea Rebholz joined the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board as a program associate in January 2009. She began her career at the National Academies in October 2005 as a senior program assistant for the Institute of Medicine's Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation. Prior to the Academies, she worked in the communications department of a DC-based think tank. Ms. Rebholz graduated from George Mason University's New Century College in 2003 with a Bachelor of Arts in Integrative Studies--Event Management and has over 7 years of experience in event planning. Back to top Christina Shipman is the financial officer for the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board and Space Studies Board. She came to work at the SSB on a fulltime basis in January 2005, having worked with both the SSB and the NRC Executive Office immediately prior to that. She was also the financial officer for the Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications for many years. She attended Mercer University and majored in sociology. Back to top John Wendt joined the ASEB / NRC as a part-time, off-site senior program officer in 2002. His main activities have involved proposal evaluations for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the State of Ohio. He retired in 1999 as director of the von Karman Institute (VKI) for Fluid Dynamics. The VKI is a NATO-affiliated international postgraduate and research establishment located in a suburb of Brussels, Belgium. Three departments constitute the core of the VKI's activities: Aeronautics/Aerospace, Industrial and Environmental Fluid Dynamics, and Turbomachinery and Propulsion. The hallmarks of the VKI are the ability to combine numerical and experimental methods, close contacts with industry, training in the methodology of problem resolution, and an international atmosphere in which "training in research through research" can take place. As director, Dr. Wendt’s main responsibility was to ensure the continued excellence of the Institute's teaching and research programs by providing effective leadership and administrative and financial management. Dr. Wendt’s career at the VKI began as a post-doctoral researcher in 1964. He served as head of the Aeronautics/Aerospace Department and dean of the faculty prior to becoming director in 1990. His research interests were rarefied gas dynamics, transonics, high angle of attack aerodynamics and hypersonic reentry including major inputs to the European Hermes space shuttle program in the 1980’s. Dr. Wendt has served as a consultant to the US Air Force, NATO, and the European Space Agency. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Aerospace. Dr. Wendt received a BS degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, and M.S.and Ph.D. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Astronautical Sciences from Northwestern University Back to top Sandra Wilson is a senior financial assistant for the Aeroanutics and Space Engineering Board and the Space Studies Board. She came to the NRC in 2007 and previously, was a temporary assistant in the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board, The National Materials Advisory Board and the Space Studies Board. During this time, she worked on the Independent Assessment of the Nation’s Wake Turbulence R&D Program, The Assessment of NASA’s Aeronautics Research Program, Assessing Corrosion Education and the Lunar Research and Technology Workshop. Mrs. Wilson previously served in a managerial capacity in the retail industry for two years. She is currently enrolled at Prince George’s Community College, majoring in Accounting. Back to top Site managed by the ASEB WebTeam.
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