Dr. Curry is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder in the Astrophysics and Planetary Sciences (APS) Department as well as a researcher at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP).

Following, she received a fellowship through NASA's Graduate Student Researchers Program (GSRP) and completed her Ph.D at the University of Michigan in 2013; her thesis was titled "Test Particle Analysis of High Altitude Ion Transport and Escape on Mars".

Her research uses statistics, applied mathematics, modeling and machine learning in order to better understand spacecraft observations of the solar system.

[5] Curry also leads the science campaigns for the Venus gravity assists performed by the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft[6][7][8] and is a collaborator on NASA’s Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS) program.

[12] In 2021, she succeeded Bruce Jakosky as the principal investigator for the MAVEN mission, which launched in 2013 and orbits Mars to study the loss of atmospheric gases to space, providing insight into the history of the planet's climate and water.