Brandon Harrison

Brandon Harrison's work experience begins with their current position as Deputy Chief Engineer at MORSE Corp, which they started in February 2022.

Prior to this role, Brandon worked at Draper from September 2015 to February 2022 as a Senior Member Of Technical Staff. In this position, they were a software engineer and task leader, primarily working on the development, testing, and management of simulation for the Dream Chaser spacecraft. These simulations were used for verification and validation of flight software, mission operator training, and risk mitigation.

Before Draper, Brandon was a Graduate Fellow at Boston University from September 2013 to August 2015. Brandon then worked as a Research Scholar at Johns Hopkins University from January 2012 to October 2014, where they developed a program to calculate deep earth geochemical thermodynamic properties as part of the Deep Carbon Observatory (DCO) project.

Additionally, Brandon held two research assistant positions at Boston University. From May 2011 to September 2011, they worked with Dr. Theodore Fritz at the Center for Space Physics, where they focused on analyzing ISEE satellite data to study particle flows in the Earth's magnetosphere. From June 2009 to May 2011, they analyzed plasma ejection rates by processing raw data received from VLBA telescopes to study physics and characterizations of Blazars, using IDL, Difmap, and SuperMongo.

Brandon Harrison completed their Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in Physics and Astronomy at Boston University, where they attended from 2007 to 2011. Brandon then pursued a Master's degree in Astronomy at the same university from 2013 to 2015.