Paul Weitekamp

Senior Propulsion Engineer

Paul Weitekamp is a propulsion engineer at SpaceX, where they lead a team developing new propulsion hardware for interplanetary travel on Starship. They previously held roles as Lead Propulsion Engineer and Senior Dynamics Engineer at Space Exploration Technologies from 2014 to 2022. Paul earned a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and was a Ph.D. Candidate in Applied Physics at the University of California San Diego from 2013 to 2014. Additionally, they participated in the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology, contributing to innovative projects in optomechanics and mass spectrometric analysis.

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El Segundo, United States

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