Education:
Ph.D., University of Colorado (Boulder)

Research Interests:

• Non-gravitational astrodynamics and advanced/non-linear multi-sensor/object tracking, prediction, and information fusion
• Space object detection, tracking, identification, and characterization
• Spacecraft navigation

Moriba Jah is an associate professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin where he is the holder of the Mrs. Pearlie Dashiell Henderson Centennial Fellowship in Engineering. He is the director for Computational Astronautical Sciences and Technologies (CAST), a group within the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences as well as the Lead for the Space Security and Safety Program at the Robert Strauss Center for International Security and Law. Moriba came to UT Austin by way of the Air Force Research Laboratory and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory prior to that, where he was a Spacecraft Navigator on a handful of Mars missions. Moriba is a Fellow of multiple organizations: TED, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Astronautical Society (AAS), International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety (IAASS), Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). He has served on the US delegation to the United Nations Committee On Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UN-COPUOS), is an elected Academician of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA), and has testified to congress on his work as related to Space Situational Awareness and Space Traffic Management. He’s an Co-Editor of the IAA and Elsevier Acta Astronautica journal, and serves on multiple committees: IAA Space Traffic Management, IAA Space Debris, AIAA Astrodynamics, IAF Astrodynamics, and IAF Space Security.

Related Websites

• Dr. Jah's website
• Dr. Jah's Flow Page
• Eyes on the Sky
• The Space Security, Safety, and Sustainability (SSSS) program at the Strauss Center

Recent Awards and Honors

• Named to the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, 2023
• Named a Member of the FAA Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Committee, 2022
• Received MacArthur Fellowship (Genius Award), 2022
• Named to the Explorers Club 50, 2022
• Neo4j Graphie Award for ASTRIAGraph, 2021
• Nonresident Scholar, Carnegie Space Project, 2021
• OpEd Public Voices Fellowship, 2020
• "Tex" Moncrief Grand Challenge Award, Oden Institute, 2019
• Elected Member of the International Institute of Space Law, 2019
• Selected as TED Fellow, 2019
• Elected to AIAA Fellow, 2019