Holly Dinkel

Holly is an Aersopace Engineering Ph.D. student at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Holly received a master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford where she was a Threshold Ventures Fellow and a member of the ARMLab. Holly is interested in motion planning, control, and estimation for autonomous systems, and is broadly inspired by the role of robotic systems in enabling the exploration, development, and habitation of extreme environments. Holly previously held roles in risk analysis of the Space Launch System at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, in nuclear sciences at Argonne National Laboratory, and in accelerator physics for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. In her free time, Holly can be found playing the clarinet in various ensembles on campus, mentoring undergraduate and high school students in STEM, or brainstorming and realizing her dreams for the future.