Danielle DeLatte, PhD

ADVISORY COUNCIL

Dr. Danielle DeLatte (she/her) is an Aurelia Institute co-founder and Advisory Council member, where she is focuses on enabling technologies and diversity & access to space. She is an aerospace engineer with passions for human-computer interaction, robotics, human-centered design, space systems, and space & science outreach. 

Danielle spent several years as a space systems engineer at Draper, and her favorite project was leading Draper's Displays & Controls subsystem team for one of the entrants to the NASA Artemis Human Landing System competition. She has also worked as an aerospace engineer at NASA Goddard on robotic satellite servicing. In grad school, she founded Space Cafe Tokyo, a monthly interdisciplinary space speaker series, and Students for the Exploration and Development of Space at the University of Tokyo, the first chapter in Japan. In her spare time, she volunteers with Letters to a Pre-Scientist and Skype a Scientist, rock climbs, and sings. 

Danielle has a bachelors in Aerospace Engineering with Information Technology from MIT, a Masters in Space Studies with Human Space Flight from the International Space University, and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Tokyo, where she researched space applications of machine learning.