Judging Team Member
Dr. Erika Wagner
Executive Director
MIT
Dr. Erika Wagner joined the X PRIZE Lab @ MIT initiative as the project’s founding Executive Director. She has been at the core of the X PRIZE Lab @ MIT initiatives, overseeing the first offering of the X PRIZE Grand Challenges course, supporting networking efforts for the X PRIZE Foundation across the university and throughout the greater Boston area, and spearheading strategic planning efforts for the Lab.
Dr. Wagner has more than six years of project management experience within MIT, having served as Science Director and Executive Director of the Mars Gravity Biosatellite Program, a multi-university spacecraft development initiative to investigate the physiological effects of reduced gravity.
Her interdisciplinary academic background includes a bachelor’s in Biomedical Engineering from Vanderbilt University, a master’s in Aeronautics & Astronautics from MIT, and a PhD in Bioastronautics from the Harvard/MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology.