Dr Danielle Wuchenich is Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of Liquid Instruments, a Canberra and San Diego based technology company. Liquid Instruments makes software-enabled test instrumentation that helps engineers, scientists, students and makers develop new ideas, test and validate designs, and change the world.
Dr Wuchenich completed her PhD in Physics at the Australian National University in laser interferometric techniques for inter-satellite metrology. During her doctorate, she spent time working on the space interferometry missions LISA and GRACE Follow-On at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California and at the Albert Einstein Institute in Hanover, Germany. Dr Wuchenich subsequently joined Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center in Palo Alto, California as a Senior Research Scientist developing novel interferometric imaging systems and laser communications architectures.
Now at Liquid Instruments, Dr Wuchenich runs the US company and manages the go-to-market team and strategy.