Dr. 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.