Max Roberts is an applied physicist specializing in experimental plasma physics, the development of plasma diagnostics, instruments for spacecraft, and general laboratory automation. He is also interested in robotics, including navigation, mapping, and machine vision.

After receiving his PhD from Columbia University, he joined the Lynch Rocket Laboratory at Dartmouth College to help develop a multipoint measurement system for the ISINGLASS sounding rocket mission, which successfully launched March 2017.

Max currently works at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the GPS Systems group, which focuses on development of receivers for precise orbit determination and making atmospheric and ionospheric measurements using GNSS signals. He is also a visiting scholar in the Dartmouth Physics and Astronomy Department. When he’s not at his computer he’s either working on his car or at the skatepark riding BMX.