Robert D. Braun

Robert D. Braun
Braun in 2021
Born
Robert David Braun

United States
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Engineer
  • academic
  • scientist
Scientific career
FieldsAstrodynamics, Hypersonics, EDL
Institutions
Thesis Collaborative Optimization: An Architecture for Large-Scale Distributed Design  (1996)
Doctoral advisorIlan M. Kroo

Robert David Braun is an American aerospace engineer and academic. He has served as the dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, the David and Andrew Lewis Professor of Space Technology at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the NASA Chief Technologist. Currently, Dr. Braun is the Space Sector Head at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL).