Anivid Pedros Faura

Anivid (Ani) is a Postdoctoral Associate in the ORCCA Lab working under Prof. Jay McMahon. She first joined the group in Spring 2019 as an undergraduate researcher. Anivid holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Astrodynamics and Satellite Navigation from CU-Boulder. Her dissertation was on the dynamical environment of small bodies and understanding natural motion in their vicinity. As a graduate student, she did research stays at ISAS/JAXA and NASA JPL working on small body missions: Hayabusa2 extended mission and the DROID mission concept, respectively. Part of her research interests include gravity modeling, robust guidance algorithms, and particle dynamics around small bodies as well as navigation. In her postdoctoral position she is working on the development of navigation software in collaboration with LASP for the Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA) as well as performing other navigation analyses for small body mission concepts.