Aseel Anabtawi

Aseel Anabtawi (, born 1969) is a Palestinian-American electrical engineer from Tulkarm who works for the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Prior to this, she has worked in radio science on various NASA missions.

Biography Aseel Anabtawi was born in 1969 in Tulkarm in Palestine's West Bank. She is the daughter of Jamal Anabtawi, an engineer, and Hosnia Ibrahim Al-Ashqar. Her mother, Al-Ashqar, had a long and distinguished career in education, serving as a teacher for many years in schools across both Tulkarm and the State of Kuwait. Her family later emigrated to the United States. She received her bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from California State University, Fullerton in 1992. In 1996, she obtained her master's degree in the same field from the University of Southern California.

Anabtawi started work at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1993. She has participated in multiple projects during her employ at NASA. At the beginning of her time at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Anabtawi worked on the Galileo Jupiter probe. Anabtawi worked with Cassini, a space probe which explored and photographed Saturn's atmosphere, sending back valuable data for NASA scientists.

As of 2022, Anabtawi is part of the Mars Science Laboratory team, the mission that landed the Curiosity rover on Mars. In 2015, she received the NASA Exceptional Service Medal for her continuing work with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.