Daphne de Jong

Daphne de Jong

Seattle, Washington, United States
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    Seattle, Washington, United States

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    Seattle, Washington, United States

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    USNC San Francisco

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    Mountain View, California

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    Greater Seattle Area

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    Mountain View, California

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    Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

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    Australia

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    Singapore

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    Canada

Education

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    Cranfield University

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    Activities and Societies: President of the Cranfield University Gliding Club Member of CranSEDS Member of the Astronomy Society Member of the Chinese Language Society Member of the Hockey Team Member of the Handball Team

    Modules include: Aeronautical Engineering, Aerodynamics, Thermal Fluids, Computing, Space Systems, GNC, Finite Element Analysis, etc.

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    Activities and Societies: Field trip to Russia, both to Moscow and St. Petersburg. The main goal was to cooperate with Roscosmos, Star City, and MIA and several trips to ESOC, SES, CERN etc.

    A unique program, purely focused on the space sector, with a scholarship of the European Space Agency. Including the subjects: Space propulsion, space systems, Telemetry, Space communications, GNC, Human spaceflight, the current and past space market, etc. Individual project: Lunar Mission One: Human exploration on the south pole of the Moon

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    International, Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Space Studies Program hold at ETS and HEC in Montréal with a scholarship of the European Space Agency.
    The course is focused on working together in international teams with people from all over the world with work experience in the space sector, ranking from space agencies to private companies.
    Different disciplines like engineering, science and business come together and the aim is to create a great network in the space sector.

    My…

    International, Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Space Studies Program hold at ETS and HEC in Montréal with a scholarship of the European Space Agency.
    The course is focused on working together in international teams with people from all over the world with work experience in the space sector, ranking from space agencies to private companies.
    Different disciplines like engineering, science and business come together and the aim is to create a great network in the space sector.

    My chosen department was Human Performance in Space, including space medicine, space science and human behaviour.

    The program includes core lectures, workshops, department activities and a final group project on Atonomous Mission on On Orbit Servicing.

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    Commercial Pilot Training, Aerospace Engineering

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    Activities and Societies: Extra subjects: included all possible topics to graduate in

    Giving permission to enter undergraduate studies

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

  • Researcher

    Variety of Development organizations - microfinance

    - Present 16 years 2 months

    Poverty Alleviation

    Researching current development organizations in Southern Africa (& Zimbabwe, Botswana) in order to identify gaps and needs.

  • Researcher

    Volunteers in Nepal - Tinpiple, Nepal

    - Present 8 years 1 month

    Poverty Alleviation

    Research on women empowerment and Microfinance, helping women excel in their projects, interfacing with external parties.

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    Fundraiser

    Amani Children's Foundation

    - Present 8 years 9 months

    Children

    Climbing the Kilimanjaro in order to raise money for this future-looking, well-directed orphanage in Tanzania.

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    Ambassador

    STEM Learning UK

    - Present 8 years

    Children

    Being a STEM Ambassador for Amazon Prime Air, visiting schools and talking for assemblies in order to help children make the best personalized career choice.

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    Strategic Partnerships

    NASA Ames Research Center

    - 3 months

    Science and Technology

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    translator & representative

    TED Conferences

    - 3 years 1 month

    Science and Technology

    Volunteering for TED means I am part of the inspiring TED Community, inspiring as many people worldwide as possible.

Projects

  • Inspiration Mars, Mars flyby project, space experiments - The Mars Society

    Being part of a team from CranSEDS, working on the Mars Flyby project. The assignment included designing a spacecraft to join a 501 days mission to Mars, including the launch, guidance & control, space experiments and re-entry.
    Working together on such a big project with people from all over the world, not only taught me a lot about space engineering, but also gave me more experience in teamwork.
    Competing against 37 other worldwide universities, we became semi-finalists. Our report was…

    Being part of a team from CranSEDS, working on the Mars Flyby project. The assignment included designing a spacecraft to join a 501 days mission to Mars, including the launch, guidance & control, space experiments and re-entry.
    Working together on such a big project with people from all over the world, not only taught me a lot about space engineering, but also gave me more experience in teamwork.
    Competing against 37 other worldwide universities, we became semi-finalists. Our report was seen and reviewed by NASA.

  • Air Corps NL

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    In the beginning of 2012 the youth department of the Royal Netherlands Air Force Association (Koninklijke Vereniging Onze Luchtmacht) began to shape the Air Corps NL association. The ACNL is a new concept in the Netherlands and aims to gather the Dutch Aeronautical students in events for networking.

    Successful events were held amongst others on the Military Academy in Breda, The Historical Flight (Gilze Rijen) & The Military Museum at Woensdrecht. It was an honour to have Andre Kuipers…

    In the beginning of 2012 the youth department of the Royal Netherlands Air Force Association (Koninklijke Vereniging Onze Luchtmacht) began to shape the Air Corps NL association. The ACNL is a new concept in the Netherlands and aims to gather the Dutch Aeronautical students in events for networking.

    Successful events were held amongst others on the Military Academy in Breda, The Historical Flight (Gilze Rijen) & The Military Museum at Woensdrecht. It was an honour to have Andre Kuipers as a guest speaker.

    ACNL was acquired by the Royal Dutch Air Force.

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Honors & Awards

  • Scholarship by the European Space Agency

    Master of Space Studies 2015, Strasbourg

    Because of the European Space Agency, I have been able to attend the MSc in Space Studies 2015 in Strasbourg at the International Space University.

  • Scholarship by the European Space Agency

    Space Studies Program 2014, Montréal

    Because of the European Space Agency, I have been able to attend the Space Studies Program 2014 in Montréal as part of the International Space University, hosted at ETS and HEC.

  • Royal Aeronautical Society

    Bursary Scheme Holder

    After passing several selections, I was chosen by the Royal Aeronautical Society to receive a bursary to study Astronautics & Space Engineering at Cranfield University.
    Together with other ambitious students, we will be invited to various network events in the Aerospace sector, including conferences, airshows and presentations.

Languages

  • English

    Full professional proficiency

  • Dutch

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • German

    Limited working proficiency

  • French

    Elementary proficiency

Organizations

  • World Economic Forum - Global Shapers

    Member

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  • Forbes 30 under 30

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  • Netherlands Space Society

    Member

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  • Women in Aerospace

    Member

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  • Space Generation Advisory Council

    Member

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  • STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics

    Volunteer

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  • Royal Aeronautical Society of the United Kingdom

    Member

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  • Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)

    member

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  • Royal Airforce Society of the Netherlands

    Member

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  • Royal Aeronautical Society of the Netherlands

    Member

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  • American Alpine Club

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  • Sierra Club

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  • The Explorers Club

    Member

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