Alice Cocoros

Dr. Alice Cocoros is a physicist who is focused on applying her expertise in instrumentation and physics to space missions. She is the APL lidar lead on NASA’s Dragonfly mission, focused on delivering a lidar that will enable hazard detection and navigation for the rotorcraft on the surface of Titan. She was the payload system lead for the Interstellar Probe Study commissioned by the Heliophysics Division of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, identifying example payloads that could meet science needs identified by the heliophysics community while addressing engineering challenges that would shape a near-term pragmatic mission designed to study our habitable astrosphere by flying through the heliosphere and out to the local interstellar medium. Her research interests include developing detectors that enable lower size, weight, and power instruments in the far ultraviolet. She is dedicated to community and mentorship, having served as a member of and mentor, leader, and manager for a number of internal efforts and organizations within APL’s Space Exploration Sector.