From instructor to outstanding professor, from building laboratories to helping found the nation’s space agency, Dr. Joel Joseph Marciano Jr. is back at the University of the Philippines to guide research and innovation. His journey is a story of personal dedication and loyalty to his institution. In every stage, one theme is constant: the privilege of building something from the ground up.

Marciano began his teaching career at the Department of Electrical Engineering (now the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute), College of Engineering, UP Diliman, rising steadily through the ranks. Between 2009 and 2015, he served as EEEI director. In 2016, he was acting director of the Department of Science and Technology-Advanced Science and Technology Institute.

He led the Philippine Scientific Earth Observation Microsatellite program, which successfully built and launched the first Philippine microsatellite, Diwata-1, into space in 2016. This was followed by the launch of the Diwata-2 microsatellite in 2018 and the development of the Maya-1 and Maya-2 nanosatellites under the Space Technology and Applications Mastery, Innovation, and Advancement program, which he also oversaw… Read more at: https://up.edu.ph/a-new-start-for-ups-research-and-innovation-endeavors/