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Sanjoy Som

Sanjoy Som

Graduate Student Researcher

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Research Scientist and Director at Blue Marble Space Institute of Science | NASA Ames Research Center

  • Education

    • Ecole Internationale De Geneve - La Chataigneraie

      1985 - 1998
      Swiss Maturité Fédérale Type C (Scientific)

    • Stanford Graduate School of Business

      2012 - 2012
      Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship (PRIE, now Stanford Ignite) Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

    • University of Washington

      2004 - 2010
      Ph.D. Planetary Sciences, Astrobiology

      Activities and Societies: AGU, AIAA Dissertation: "Investigating the Early Atmospheres of Earth and Mars through Rivers, Raindrops and Lava Flows."

    • University of Washington

      2002 - 2004
      M.Sc. Aeronautics and Astronautics

      Activities and Societies: AIAA Thesis "Stability and Heat Transfer Characteristics of an Unsteady Condensing Film"

    • Florida Institute of Technology

      1999 - 2002
      B.Sc. (with highest honors) Aerospace Engineering

      Activities and Societies: AIAA, Tau Beta Pi Capstone: "AIRCOPS - Aerial Intelligence: Remotely Controlled Operating Plane for Surveillance"

  • Experience

    • University of Washington

      Sept 2004 - Dec 2010
      Graduate Student Researcher

      Ph.D. Candidate in Earth and Space Sciences.

    • Space Generation Advisory Council

      Jan 2005 - Jan 2010
      Volunteer

      Helped organize the yearly Space Generation Congress as assistant manager in 2008 and 2009.

    • ESA/ESTEC

      Aug 2009 - Sept 2009
      Research Scientist / Engineer

      Raman spectrometry of organics and minerals, lunar mission simulation, computer networking

    • Blue Marble Space Institute of Science

      Dec 2009 - now
      Founder and Director

      Blue Marble Space Institute of Science is an international community engaged in building a sustainable future and nurturing scientific interest among the public. Its mission is to explore life as a universal phenomenon and empower the next generation of scientists.

    • NASA Ames Research Center

      Feb 2011 - Jul 2016

      Som is the systems engineer for Fruit Fly Lab. The Fruit Fly Lab is a system that will enable long-duration spaceflight experiments aboard the International Space Station using the widely studied model organism Drosophila melanogaster, or the common fruit fly. Som investigates the connection between geology, geochemistry, and microbiology in serpentinizing systems, through a combination of field, laboratory and theoretical studies.

      • Systems Engineer

        Mar 2013 - Jul 2016

      • Post-doctoral Fellow

        Feb 2011 - Feb 2013

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Sanjoy Som
      2021 NASA Ames Honor Award NASA Ames Research Center Sep 2021 In recognition of the impact of the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, an international community engaged in empowering the next generation of scientists and nurturing scientific interest among the public, and in creating numerous benefits to the Ames community via BMSIS.