Senior Product Engineer
Varda Space Industries
Haley Bauser is a Senior Product Engineer at Varda Space Industries where she develops pharmaceutical crystallization experiments for hypergravity and microgravity. She recently served as the responsible pharmaceutical engineer for Varda’s first mission in which the metastable form of ritonavir was successfully crystallized in-orbit and returned to Earth. Prior to Varda, Haley received her Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Caltech where she worked on designing and fabricating nano-scale optics for renewable energy technologies including space-based solar power. While at Caltech she was the recipient of the inaugural Kavli Nanoscience Institute Catalyst Award.