SETI InstituteDr. Isabel Angelo earned her doctorate in 2025 from UCLA where she worked at the intersection of machine learning, physical models, and statistical methods to search for planets, binary stars, and anomalies in datasets including Kepler and Gaia.
Coral Clark has over 30 years of experience in education, including 10 years of classroom science instruction and 25 years in teacher professional development. She has contributed to science curricula at the SETI Institute, including the integrated science curriculum, Voyages Through Time.
Dr. Kimberly Bott received her PhD from the University of New South Wales, working on exoplanet polarimetry (observation and computational modeling). Subsequently, she held postdoc positions at the Virtual Planetary Laboratory and UC Riverside.
Currently, Dr. Bott is investigating the observability of terrestrial exoplanets in polarized light with contemporary and near-future telescopes and how the method might be used to map those worlds.
Dr. Ross Beyer studies planetary surfaces, working on ways to quantitatively analyze the meter-scale topography and surface roughness via remote sensing. This work has been used to help plan landing sites on Mars and the Moon.
Dr. Kayla Iacovino studies how life-essential elements like carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and sulfur drive magmatic processes that help form atmospheres, maintain climate, and create chemical disequilibria that life can exploit.
Dr. Andrew Lincowski works with Dr. Victoria Meadows on simulating and characterizing terrestrial exoplanet atmospheres. He is the current developer of the Virtual Planetary Laboratory 1D climate model (initially developed by Dr. David Crisp and Prof. Tyler Robinson).
Dr. Kai Yang is a solar physics researcher focused on the Sun's dynamic activity. His work investigates the mechanisms of coronal heating, the complex magnetic topology that structures the corona, and the instabilities that trigger solar and stellar flares.
Dr. Lauren Sgro is a Postdoctoral Fellow focused on exoplanet research, working with citizen scientists to observe exoplanet transits through the Unistellar Network.
Dr. Isabel Angelo earned her doctorate in 2025 from UCLA where she worked at the intersection of machine learning, physical models, and statistical methods to search for planets, binary stars, and anomalies in datasets including Kepler and Gaia.
Dr. Victoria Meadows leads the massively interdisciplinary NASA Virtual Planetary Laboratory, which she started in 2001 with the goal of developing a scientific foundation for the search for habitability and life beyond the Solar System.
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