# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sandra-cauffman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:23:29.478Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sandra-cauffman"
name: "Sandra Cauffman"
slug: "sandra-cauffman"
description: "Sandra Cauffman is a Costa Rican-American specialist in electrical engineering and physics. She is known for her work at NASA in different projects. Her profile has been highlighted by UN Women for being a positive example for women, especially, youth and children. Cauffman worked for 25 years at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD in missions such as the mission to Mars MAVEN, and Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite GOES-R. She is currently the Deputy Director of the Astrophysics Division within the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C. She served as the Deputy Director for the Earth Science Division from May 2016 - October 2021. She served as Acting Director in the Earth Science Division from February 2019 to June 2020. Cauffman started as a contractor with NASA on February 1, 1988, and became a NASA employee February 11, 1991. Cauffman is the first Costa Rican woman to lead a Mars-related mission."
tagline: "Costa Rican physicist and electrical engineer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/617842main_Sandra_Cauffman.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1962-05-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.41
  momentum:             1.764705882352941
  historical:           6.82592
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Cauffman"
    title: "Sandra Cauffman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7_%D9%83%D9%88%D9%81%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "ساندرا كوفمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Cauffman"
    title: "Sandra Cauffman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Cauffman"
    title: "Sandra Cauffman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Cauffman"
    title: "Sandra Cauffman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Cauffman"
    title: "Sandra Cauffman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Cauffman"
    title: "Sandra Cauffman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Cauffman"
    title: "Sandra Cauffman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24251462"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump