Christine Gebara is a mechatronics engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Her work focuses on developing new technologies to enable space-based science, including deployable structures and 3D printing. She recently helped build and test the SWOT mission (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) in collaboration with the French Space Agency (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales). She has contributed to numerous JPL missions including Europa Clipper, Pschye, ans NISAR.

She is currently working to develop novel optical and antenna systems for various NASA missions.

M.S. Aerospace Engineering - Georgia Institute of Technology
B.S. Aerospace Engienering - Georgia Institute of Technology

• Additive Manufacturing
• Deployable Structures
• Airborne Missions
• Small Spacecraft

• Robotic Systems  | Small Satellite Systems
• Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing  | Deployable Systems
• Materials, Structures, Mechanical Systems, and Manufacturing  | Additive Manufacturing, Multifunctional Systems

• NASA Award | NASA Early Career Achievement Medal (2023)
• JPL Team Award | SWOT Payload Assembly Integration and Test (2022)
• JPL Team Award | Deployable Antenna Assembly Integration and Test, (2021)
• JPL Team Award | SWOT Mechanical Ground Support Equipment (2020)
• JPL Team Award | SWOT Integrated Mast Assembly Delivery (2019)
• Innovative Spontaneous Concept (2019)
• Innovative Spontaneous Concept (2018)