IACAS-2024 is delighted to announce that this year’s Keynote speaker will be Dr. Eliad Peretz, a NASA research scientist.
Dr. Peretz is an Israeli researcher who has been holding senior positions at NASA for over a decade, and recently received NASA’s prestigious Exceptional Achievement Medal, recognizing his remarkable progress and contributions. He is the Technology Program Manager and Lead Researcher for new space missions at the Goddard Space Flight Center. Dr. Peretz is a Technion Aerospace Engineering alumni.
A short bio from the American Technion Society page:
Dr. Eliad Peretz ’13 is based at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and serves as a Mission and Instrument scientist at NASA’s Heliophysics Division.
Dr. Peretz also serves as a lead researcher for New Space Missions for Nobel Laureate in Physics John Mather. In his roles, he is charged with identifying and mapping the scientific challenges and required technologies, and is designing and leading space missions that could solve some of humanity’s great questions, including whether other habitable planets around sun-like stars exist in the universe.
For his work, Dr. Peretz was awarded NASA’s Exceptional Acheivment Medal, NASA’s Early Career Acheivement Medal, Robert H. Goddard Award, NASA’s Excellence Award for Early Career as well as the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship and NASA’s Space Technology Research Fellowship during his Ph.D.
Eliad was born in Afula in 1982 to a family of immigrants from Morocco and the United Kingdom and received his degrees from both the Technion and Cornell University. He currently resides in Silver Spring, Md. with his wife Abby Goldman, who serves at the Science and Technology Policy Institute advising the White House and other federal agencies. The two have three daughters: Shoshana, Ruth, and Efrat.
