Margaret Zoila Dominguez
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Margaret Zoila Dominguez is a Mexican optical engineer at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). She is known for collaborating on the Nancy Grace Telescope at NASA'S Goddard Space Flight Center. She does educational outreach primarily at elementary and middle schools teaching about optics. She advocates on recruiting minorities and Hispanics to be future scientists and engineers.
Early life and education
Domínguez was born in Tecamachalco, Mexico. Her family raised farm animals from rabbits to cows. Dominguez is the oldest sibling of four. She graduated from University of the Americas Puebla (UDLAP) with a Bachelor's (B.S) in Physics. She also earned her Master's (M.S) (2014) and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) (2019) at University of Arizona in Optical Sciences.
Career and research
In 2008, while still attending UDLAP, Dominguez helped organize a physics conference.
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