Jon MacArthur

Jon MacArthur, PhD, works in the Aero/Astro department at MIT and part of the Space Propulsion Lab working on electric propulsion for spacecraft. He is originally from Columbus, Nebraska and received his B.S. from Iowa State University prior to coming to MIT. He was president of the Graduate Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT and has recently flown his research experiments as a payload aboard the zero-gravity flight alongside the Space Exploration Initiative at the Media Lab. He has ongoing projects in micro and nanofabrication for a number of clients and is working towards starting his own small satellite company.