The Corporation of Brown University
Maria T. Zuber
Trustee (2020-26)
Biography
| Maria Zuber is the E. A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics and the presidential advisor for science and technology policy at MIT, tracking trends and seizing opportunities to inform and advance enlightened state and federal policy. Zuber served as vice president for research from 2013 to 2024, and was responsible for research administration and policy, research relationships with the federal government, and oversight of more than a dozen interdisciplinary research laboratories and centers. Zuber has held leadership roles associated with scientific experiments or instrumentation on ten NASA missions, most notably serving as principal investigator of the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission. Zuber currently serves as Chair of the Standing Review Board of NASA's Mars Sample Return mission. Zuber holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an Sc.M. and Ph.D. from Brown. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2013, President Obama appointed her to the National Science Board, and in 2018 she was reappointed by President Trump. In 2021, President Biden named her as co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). |