Space Conference Speaker

Adrienne Rudolph is an Aerospace Engineering PhD student at the University of Maryland and a CRESST-II researcher supported by NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office, developing faster propagation methods for modeling disrupted asteroid fragment trajectories. She received her Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering from UMD, and Bachelor’s degree from Purdue University. She is also a 2025 Women in Defense Scholar and Rocket City Fellow. Last summer, Ms. Rudolph interned at The Aerospace Corporation as a remote sensing architecture performance engineer and worked at ExoAnalytic Solutions prior to. Outside of academia, Adrienne has participated in various Space Mission Design Schools, is a scientific diver in training at UMD’s Neutral Buoyancy Research Facility, Principal Investigator of the TERP RAPTOR mission to Apophis, and skates in the University of Maryland Figure Skating Club.