Hi, my name is June Stenzel. I am an engineer, researcher, organizer, activist, writer, programmer, and artist… roughly in that order. This is my personal website, where I post about my professional work, research, and other projects and achievements. On this website you can find information about my research, career, and advocacy work.

I recently completed a PhD studying space systems engineering at MIT. I have been affiliated with the Space Systems Lab and the Engineering Systems Lab. My primary research interests are aerospace engineering, computational modeling, uncertainty quantification, systems engineering, and astronomical instrumentation. I have additional research and technical experience with astronomy, system design, and safety & mission assurance.

I have experience as a systems engineer, providing analysis, planning, integration, and testing as part of the Astronomical Instrumentation Team at the MIT Kavli Institute, and in multiple internships with the System Verification & Validation Group at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Before going back to school, I had worked as a software engineer for a total of 3 years. I have experience with software development as a member of small and large teams.

I enjoy engineering research, because it gives us the only pathway to building our world better, safer, and more efficiently. My systems engineering work supports space science, which has the particular ability to help us understand invaluable questions, such as the rate and effects of global climate change, how life does or doesn’t evolve in planets like our own, what the nature of our universe is, and what our place in it truly is. I believe that science should be done in the interest of all peoples and for the benefit of humankind, which is why advocacy and activism will always be a central part of my work.

For professional inquiries, please see my contact page.