Derek Thompson Email & Phone Number
Sr. Electric Propulsion Engineer @ SpaceX
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Derek Thompson Location
- Hawthorne, CA, US
Derek Thompson Work
- Sr. Electric Propulsion Engineer @ (February 2025 - Present)
- Principal Systems Engineer @ (January 2022 - June 2025)
- Lead Propulsion Systems Engineer @ (September 2020 - January 2022)
- Plasma Physicist @ (July 2019 - September 2020)
- Consultant @ (March 2019 - July 2019)
- Postdoctoral Research Associate @ (August 2015 - July 2019)
- Graduate Research Assistant @ (August 2015 - June 2018)
- Project Lead @ University of Wisconsin-Madison (January 2013 - July 2015)
- Graduate Research Assistant @ University of Wisconsin-Madison (August 2009 - December 2012)
- Research Assistant @ (June 2006 - August 2009)
Derek Thompson Education
- West Virginia University
Ph.D. (Physics, 4.0 GPA)
2015-2018 - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Master of Science (MS) (Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics)
2009-2012 - University of Chicago
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) (Physics)
2004-2008
Derek Thompson Skills
- C (Programming Language)
- C/C++
- Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
- Data Analysis
- Experimental Physics
- Experimentation
- Fiber Optics
- LaTeX
- LabVIEW
- Laser spectrosopy
- Lasers
- Leadership
- Mathematica
- Mathematical Modeling
- Mathematics
- Matlab
- Microsoft Office
- Numerical Analysis
- Optical Engineering
- Optics
- Physics
- Plasma Physics
- Programming
- Project Management
- Project Planning
- Public Speaking
- Python
- Research
- Science
- Scientific Computing
- Signal Processing
- Simulations
- SolidWorks
- Spectroscopy
- Statistics
- Teaching
Derek Thompson Summary
- Derek Thompson, based in Hawthorne, CA, US, is currently a Sr. Electric Propulsion Engineer at SpaceX. Derek Thompson brings experience from previous roles at Phase Four. Derek Thompson holds a 2015 - 2018 Ph.D. in Physics, 4.0 GPA @ West Virginia University. With a robust skill set that includes C (Programming Language), C/C++, Computer-Aided Design (CAD), Data Analysis, Experimental Physics and more. Derek Thompson has 3 emails and 3 mobile phone numbers on RocketReach.
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