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==Career==
Early in her career Belz did postdoctoral research in geobiomicrobiology and [[biogeochemistry]] at the [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]] (JPL) and the Caltech Geological and Planetary Science Division, studying microbial metal cycling as a model for life detection for the [[NASA|National Aeronautics and Space Administration]] (NASA). For ten years she was a consulting systems engineer in the Mission Systems Concepts Division of the [[Jet Propulsion Laboratory]] (JPL).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-himi-belz-20140511-story.html|title=For her, rocket science is just the start|date=May 11, 2014|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>
Belz created and led Innovation Node-Los Angeles, a regional hub for the [[National Science Foundation]] (NSF) I-Corps program from 2014 until 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-usc-ucla-caltech-nsf-i-corps-20140826-story.html|title=USC, UCLA, Caltech get joint grant to fuel tech start-ups in L.A.|date=August 26, 2014|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref> She then went to NSF to lead the Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) Division and served on the leadership team that launched the new Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) Directorate, where she oversaw NSF's principal applied research programs, including the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR), I-Corps, Partnerships for Innovation (PFI), and Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRC) programs.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=297787|title=Andrea Belz to lead NSF Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships|website=www.nsf.gov}}</ref>
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