Leadership
Janusz Petkowski

Dr. Janusz Petkowski

MIT, Deputy PI
Peter Klupar

Dr. Pete Klupar

Breakthrough Initiatives, Chief Engineer
Core Team Co-Investigators
Weston Buchanan

Dr. Weston Buchanan

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Rachana Agrawal, PhD

MIT
David Grinspoon

Dr. David Grinspoon

Planetary Science Institute
Dr Pete Worden

Dr. Pete Worden

Breakthrough Initiatives, Executive Director
Professor Sarag Saikia

Prof. Sarag Saika

Purdue University
Dillon O'Reilly

Dillon O'Reilly

Breakthrough Initiatives
Extended Science and Engineering Team

Archit Arora

Purdue University

Dr. Armando Azua-Bustos

(Center of Astrobiology (CSIC-INTA), Spain

Joli Berkow

MIT
Graham Dorrington

Dr. Graham Dorrington

RMIT University
Ewa Borowska

Ewa Borowska

University of Warsaw/AGH

Dr. Daniel Duzdevich

HHMI, Harvard University
Dr Morgan Cable

Dr. Morgan Cable

Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Richard French

Richard French

Rocket Lab
Professor Jim Cleaves

Prof. Henderson "Jim" Cleaves

Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Professor Jane Greaves

Dr. Jane Greaves

Cardiff University
Chris Isaac

Chris Isaac

Director at SpaceAM
Prof. Rakesh Mogul

Prof. Rakesh Mogul

Cal Poly Pomona
Laila Kaasik

Laila Kaasik

MSc student, University of Tartu, Estonia
Rachel Moore

Rachel Moore, PhD

Carr Lab / Georgia Tech
Dr Kenneth Nealson

Dr. Kenneth Nealson

University of Southern California
Prof. Dr. Mihkel Pajusalu

Prof. Dr. Mihkel Pajusalu

Head of Space Technology Department, University of Tartu, Estonia
Jordan McKaig

Jordan McKaig

Georgia Tech

Grace Ni

University of Maryland
Dr. Jan Spacek

Dr. Jan Spacek

Firebird Biomolecular Sciences, LLC

Master’s in Molecular Biology & Genetics, Ph.D. in Genomics & Proteomics

Ida Rahu

Dr. Ida Rahu

Senior Specialist for Chemistry, University of Tartu, Estonia
Sukrit Ranjan

Dr. Sukrit Ranjan

SCOL Postdoctoral Fellow @ MIT
Dr. Paul Rimmer

Dr. Paul Rimmer

University of Cambridge
Andreas Riedo

Dr. Andreas Riedo

University of Bern, Switzerland

Space Research and Planetary Sciences, Physics Institute

Robert Weber

Fluid-Screen
Peter Wurz

Prof. Dr. Peter Wurz

University of Bern, Switzerland

Director, Space Science and Planetology, Physics Institute

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