Paul F. Wercinski

Paul Wercinski received a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 1987 and a M.S in Aero/Astro Engineering from Stanford University in 1990. He has been with the NASA Ames Research Center for more than 30 years. He is currently the project manager for the Adaptable, Deployable Entry and Placement Technology (ADEPT) project since 2012. He has been involved in multiple areas within the Entry, Descent, and Landing (EDL) discipline at NASA over the past several decades. He had served a I-year assignment at NASA HQ in the Science Mission Directorate as program executive for the In-Space Propulsion Technology Program (2002–2003). He has served in line management roles at NASA Ames as well as participating in numerous planetary mission studies with an emphasis onEDL.