Daphne de Jong

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Daphne de Jong is an aerospace engineer and a trained commercial pilot. In 2018, she was listed as Forbes 30 under 30 in consumer technology. She worked on the first Amazon Prime Air customer delivery in the United Kingdom and has also worked at Waymo, Rivian, SpaceX and NASA Ames.

Education

De Jong graduated from Cranfield University with a MSc in aerospace engineering and from International Space University with a MSc in space technologies.

Career

Daphne de Jong worked for Waymo and Rivian on advanced autonomous vehicles. Previously, she also worked for SpaceX. At Amazon Prime Air she contributed to deliver Amazon's packages to their customers by autonomous drones. She also spent time at NASA Ames, focused on optimizing flight networks.

Personal life

De Jong has described her goal as the development of technologies that will transform people's lives, a topic she discussed in her TEDx talk and multiple interviews.

In 2019, she climbed Mount Everest.

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