Paula Gutierrez Cascales — Co-Founder
Meng Aeronautics with Spacecraft Engineering at Imperial College London, MIT, UC Berkeley (1st class honours, 4.0 GPA). - Head of Department Exceptional Achievement Award. Aeronautical Scholar diploma for « excellence academic performance ». - MIT master thesis: generative deep learning for discontinuities on PDEs. Quantitative financial analyst at Bank of America. NASA JPL intern in Propulsion and Thermal Engineering (publications : IAC, LPSC). MIT researcher at the Hypersonics Research laboratory. Rolls-Royce summer intern. Ex software Engineer at Magdrive and Clearspace. - Winner of SuperNova 2023 as the best Spanish Student under 25. - Engineer Leaders Scholarship from Royal Academy of Engineering. - Winner of Google Hackathon in LA Offices. - Winner Moonshot Price at VCC2023 accelerator. - Winner of the European Space Agency Grand Prix. - ESA sponsorship (ISEB) to join 50 students from worldwide space agencies. Featured on El Mundo, ESA, cadena COPE, OndaCero, Okdiario, El Público, Uk Daily News, Intereconomia, El mundo financiero, La Provincia, Imperial College. I am also in 3rd year of a Politics Science degree (240 credits) to complement my science knowledge. Additionally, I have won hackathons such as LeoHack or Leanspace Hackathon. I have dedicated a great deal of my life playing table tennis in the Spanish national team (High Performance Athlete title from Spanish Gov). Native French and Spanish speaker, between London and SF.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a highly skilled aerospace engineer with software development expertise.
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Experience: 11 yrs 9 mos
Skills
- Propulsion Engineering
- Thermal Engineering
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Aerodynamics
- Software Engineering
Career Highlights
- Winner of multiple prestigious engineering awards
- Experience with NASA and leading aerospace companies
- Strong academic background with 4.0 GPA
Work Experience
Selfin (YC F25)
Co-Founder (6 mos)
Bank of America
Quantitative Analyst (2 mos)
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Aerothermodynamics Engineer (2 mos)
Rolls-Royce
Summer Intern (2 mos)
University of California, Berkeley
CFD Engineer at Flow Lab (9 mos)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Aerodynamics researcher at Hypersonic Research Lab (3 mos)
ClearSpace
Software engineer (1 mo)
Magdrive
Software Engineer (2 mos)
Consejo Superior de Deportes
High Performance Athlete, RFETM (10 yrs 11 mos)
Education
Master of Engineering - MEng at Imperial College London
Master of Engineering - MEng at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Master of Engineering - MEng at University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor's degree (240 credits) at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia - U.N.E.D.
French primary and secondary school at Lycée français de Madrid