Biography

After completing an interdisciplinary Ph.D. at Rutgers University in the areas of Industrial and Systems Engineering and Bioresource Engineering, Dr. Luis F. Rodríguez was awarded a National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship to work at NASA Johnson Space Center considering the viability of life support systems targeted for Martian exploration. Later, he became a research scientist at the Universities Space Research Association in Houston, TX. Dr. Rodríguez is currently an associate professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the Agricultural and Biological Engineering Department.