Leadership
Prof. Sara Seager
MIT, PI
Dr. Janusz Petkowski
MIT, Deputy PI
Dr. Pete Klupar
Breakthrough Initiatives, Chief Engineer
Core Team Co-Investigators
Professor Bethany Ehlmann
Caltech
Dr. Monika Weber
Fluid-Screen
Dr. David Grinspoon
Planetary Science Institute
Dr. Pete Worden
Breakthrough Initiatives, Executive Director
Prof. Sarag Saika
Purdue University
Dillon O'Reilly
Breakthrough Initiatives
Extended Science and Engineering Team

Archit Arora
Purdue University

Dr. Armando Azua-Bustos
(Center of Astrobiology (CSIC-INTA), Spain
Laurie Barge
JPL

Joli Berkow
MIT
Dr. Graham Dorrington
RMIT University
Ewa Borowska
University of Warsaw/AGH
Dr. Daniel Duzdevich
HHMI, Harvard University
Dr. Morgan Cable
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Richard French
Rocket Lab
Prof. Henderson "Jim" Cleaves
Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Dr. Jane Greaves
Cardiff University
Chris Isaac
Director at SpaceAM
Prof. Rakesh Mogul
Cal Poly Pomona
Laila Kaasik
MSc student, University of Tartu, Estonia

Rachel Moore, PhD
Carr Lab / Georgia Tech
Iaroslav Iakubivskyi
Engineer and PhD student, University of Tartu, Estonia
Dr. Kenneth Nealson
University of Southern California

Jordan McKaig
Georgia Tech
Grace Ni
University of Maryland
Prof. Dr. Mihkel Pajusalu
Head of Space Technology Department, University of Tartu, Estonia
Dr. Ida Rahu
Senior Specialist for Chemistry, University of Tartu, Estonia
Dr. Sukrit Ranjan
SCOL Postdoctoral Fellow @ MIT
Dr. Paul Rimmer
University of Cambridge
Dr. Andreas Riedo
University of Bern, Switzerland
Space Research and Planetary Sciences, Physics Institute
Dr. Jan Spacek
Firebird Biomolecular Sciences, LLC
Master’s in Molecular Biology & Genetics, Ph.D. in Genomics & Proteomics
Robert Weber
Fluid-Screen
Prof. Dr. Peter Wurz
University of Bern, Switzerland
Director, Space Science and Planetology, Physics Institute