Grace Calkins is a first-year PhD student and NASA Space Grant Technology Fellow from Williamsburg, Virginia. She holds a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and a MS in Aerospace Engineering from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on efficient uncertainty quantification and trajectory optimization. She is also an Amelia Earhart Fellow and has interned at several NASA centers (JPL, LaRC, JSC), and Blue Origin, where she worked on projects ranging from test engineering to trajectory design.聽