Dr. Jennifer Inman currently serves at the Project Manager for NASA’s Scientifically Calibrated In-Flight Imagery (SCIFLI) team. In this role, she leads a diverse collaboration of researchers and subject matter experts in acquiring remote engineering flight data from rockets and capsules during spaceflight operations and flight tests to provide the Agency with data-based verification of vehicle design, health, performance, and to validate ground tests and computational modeling tools. She grew up in California, went to high school in Colorado, and came to Virginia for college. She began her NASA career as a graduate student, conducting research in support of the Space Shuttle Return to Flight effort. Before joining SCIFLI, Dr. Inman was part of a research team applying non-intrusive laser-based methods to study hypersonic flow phenomena in NASA’s wind tunnels. She received her B.S. (2000), M.S. (2003) and Ph.D. (2007) in physics from The College of William and Mary in Virginia. She currently lives in Williamsburg with her husband Matt and their three kids.

Neyda Abreu currently serves as Center Chief Scientist. She runs the Emeriti Langley Associates Program, the new version the former Distinguished Research Associate Program. She joined NASA in 2020, after 13 years as a geoscience faculty member in the Penn State system. In 2007, she began an assistant professor appointment at Penn State-DuBois. She was promoted to tenured associate professor in 2013, and full professor in 2020. Neyda’s technical and field work have shed light on the processes giving rise to planets, water, and organics in our solar system. She completed her undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy at the University of Minnesota in 2000. She received her doctorate’s degree in Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of New Mexico in 2007, and a master’s degree in strategic management and executive leadership at Penn State in 2022.