Dr. Suraj Rawal is the Technical Fellow at Advanced Technology Center, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company. Dr. Rawal received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Brown University, RI, USA, and B.Tech, and M.Tech from I.I.T Kanpur, India.

Dr. Rawal has about 30 years of experience in the applied materials and structures research for spacecraft systems, and he has successfully inserted new materials technologies into the components of several spacecrafts such as MGS, Mars 98, EO-1, Deep Space-1, STRV-1d, Genesis, Stardust, MRO, XSS-11, JUNO, GRAIL and special programs. He has been program manager and principal investigator of several contract research and development (CR&D) programs sponsored by AFRL, BMDO, DARPA, NASA, and ONR.

Dr. Rawal represents LM in the advisory panels of Minority Nanotechnology Leadership Institutions, AFOSR sponsored Multi-University Research Initiative (MURI) programs at Case Western, Rice University, and Stanford University, and the Mechanical Engineering Departments of Colorado State University, University of Denver, and University of Colorado (Boulder).

Dr. Rawal has received several Lockheed Martin awards, including inventor, author, and technical excellence, and has authored over 80 articles related to advanced composites, multifunctional structures, thin film solar cells, thermal management, additive manufacturing, and hypersonics,. Dr. Rawal has 9 patents, and 4 trade secrets.