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Susanna Finn, Ph.D., is a Research Scientist at the Lowell Center for Space Science and Technology (LoCSST) and is currently serving as an IPA Program Scientist at NASA Headquarters with the Heliophysics Division of the Science Mission Directorate. She was the instrument scientist for the Limb-imaging Ionospheric and Thermospheric Extreme-ultraviolet Spectrograph (LITES) aboard the International Space Station, a UV imager to study Earth's upper atmosphere and space weather. Finn was also the Deputy PI of Science Program Around Communications Engineering with High Achieving Undergraduate Cadres (SPACE HAUC), an undergraduate student CubeSat (small satellite) mission, and was PI on an experiment to study atmospheric waves following the total solar eclipse in 2017. She has a broad background with experience in space hardware development, star formation and radio astronomy, aeronomy, and adaptive optics for vision science applications. Finn holds a bachelor of science degree in mathematics-physics from Brown University, and a master’s and Ph.D. in astronomy from Boston University.
