Dr. Rachel Morgan is an Optical Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center. She completed her undergraduate degree in Aerospace Engineering and Physics at MIT. She then continued her studies at MIT for graduate school as a NASA Space Technology and Research Fellow and an Amelia Earhart Fellow.
Dr. Ian Weaver earned his PhD in Astrophysics from Harvard University, where he studied the atmospheres of planets around other stars. He currently serves as the Education Lead for Unistellar, which provides community outreach support for the NASA Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) mission.
Dr. Matija Ćuk specializes in the orbital and rotational dynamics of the Solar System bodies and has worked on the origin and dynamics of binary asteroids, the Earth-Moon system, and Saturn's moons and rings.
Dr. Ćuk’s current research involves determining where and when the moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, formed, as well as whether Saturn's large moon Titan formed in a merger of two smaller moons.
Dr. Chenoa Tremblay is a project scientist at the SETI Institute with joint appointments at Breakthrough Initiatives, the University of New Mexico, and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory.
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Dr. Juan Martinez-Sykora is interested in developing models for the solar atmosphere and comparing them to observations. In particular, he is interested in the effects of neutrals on chromospheric physics.
Dr. Shania Nichols is a physicist with a background in gravitational wave detector characterization and astronomy. She graduated with her PhD in Physics from Louisiana State University in 2024 and is currently a NANOGrav Physics Frontier Center Postdoctoral Researcher.
James De Buizer has developed instruments for world-class astronomical observatories, is a former aeronaut who worked onboard an airborne NASA observatory, and is a respected science communicator who has given lectures to audiences around the globe.
Dr. Agata Zupanska brings a biologist’s perspective to the quest for understanding life. She tests the limits of terrestrial plant life and works on preparing plants for deep space human missions, all with a goal to advance deep space exploration.
Dr. Franck Marchis is a senior astronomer and Director of Citizen Science at the SETI Institute, Chief Science Officer and co-founder of Unistellar, and co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of SkyMapper.
Dr. Matt Tiscareno studies how things move in the solar system. He led the discovery of small moons embedded in Saturn’s rings, seen indirectly by the propeller-shaped disturbances they create in the surrounding ring material.
Dr. Tiscareno is also interested in how moons rotate. He was part of a team that used a tiny wobble in the rotation of Saturn’s moon Enceladus to prove that the moon’s subsurface water extends globally as a subsurface ocean.
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