Julie Bellerose is a research scientist at Carnegie Mellon University - Silicon Valley, collaborating with the science teams of small body mission concepts currently under development at NASA Ames. Her areas of interest are especially astrodynamics and small solar system body exploration, including topics in mission analysis, orbit determination and perturbation methods, small body dynamics combined with surface science and interior composition studies, spacecraft applications and mission operations.
Julie is the first international JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow to have stayed at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) working with the JAXA Space Exploration Center on the Hayabusa follow-on missions. Prior to this, she obtained her Ph.D. at the University of Michigan, studying the dynamics of binary asteroid systems and spacecraft applications. Throughout her time at Michigan, she was also involved in a variety of projects with the Student Space Systems Fabrication Lab (S3FL). This included the MClimber team, which competed in the 2006 NASA Centennial Challenge Elevator 2010.
Julie attended the International Space University Space Studies Program in 2004 in Adelaide, Australia. In her free time, she enjoys competitive cycling, social sports and flying over the Bay area.