Introducing New Faculty Member - Dr. Karen Marais
| Event Date: | January 9, 2009 |
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The School of Aeronautics and Astronautics welcomes new faculty member Dr. Karen Marais (Carr´-en Muh-ray´). She joined the school as Assistant Professor in the aerospace systems group beginning in the spring of 2009. Her research interests include safety analysis and risk assessment of complex socio-technical systems in general, and aerospace systems in particular. In addition, Dr. Marais conducts research on the environmental impact of aviation within the FAA PARTNER Centre of Excellence, and is currently growing her research platform to include maintenance and operations of engineering systems.
Dr. Marais received her Ph.D. from the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT in 2005. She also holds a master's degree in space-based radar from MIT. Prior to graduate school, she worked in South Africa as an electronic engineer. She holds a B.Eng. in electrical and electronic engineering from the University of Stellenbosch and a B.Sc. in mathematics from the University of South Africa.
Dr. Marais is the author or co-author of some twenty technical publications including six journal publications and one book chapter. She is currently working on an introductory textbook on reliability and risk analysis to be published by Cambridge University Press.