MARSBIOTOPE.COM - Key Persons


Adrian Brown

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Program Scientist

Al Chen

Job Titles:
  • EDL Phase Lead

Amanda Ho

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Engineer

Amy Culver

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Instrument Operations Chief

Art Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Arturo Rankin

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Robotic Operations Chief

Audrey Joya

Job Titles:
  • Project Resource Analyst Lead

Avi Okon

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Sample Caching System Chief

Bryan Martin

Job Titles:
  • Flight Software & Testbeds Manager

Christopher Herd

Job Titles:
  • Returned Sample Science Lead

Claire Powell

Job Titles:
  • Mars Communications Manager

Dania Lazo

Job Titles:
  • Electrical Engineer
Dania moved to the U.S. from Honduras as a teenager, and her path led to a career in developing circuit boards for spacecraft traveling way beyond our home planet.

Daniel Zayas

Job Titles:
  • Operations Mission Lead

Dennis Wai

Job Titles:
  • Robotics Technologist

Diana Trujillo

Job Titles:
  • Operations Mission Lead
  • Phase Lead, Robotic Arm Science

Eric Aguilar

Job Titles:
  • Technical Group Supervisor

Frank Hartman

Job Titles:
  • Robotic Operations Chief

George Tahu

Job Titles:
  • Program Executive

Giuseppe Cataldo

Job Titles:
  • Planetary Protection

Heather Bottom

Job Titles:
  • Systems Engineer

Jane Platt

Job Titles:
  • Editor

Jocelyn Clancy

Job Titles:
  • Systems Operations Engineer

Justin Maki

Job Titles:
  • Instrument Operations Chief

Katie Stack Morgan

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Project Scientist

Ken Farley

Job Titles:
  • Project Scientist

Ken Williford

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Project Scientist

Kimberly Maxwell

Job Titles:
  • Science Operations Chief

Laura Rodriguez

Job Titles:
  • Staff Scientist
As a Mars scientist, Laura is particularly interested in how planets evolve, within our own solar system and beyond.

Loren Jones

Job Titles:
  • Engineering Operations Chief

Magdy Bareh

Job Titles:
  • Strategic Development Mission Manager

Mark Underwood

Job Titles:
  • Mission Assurance Manager

Matthew Robinson

Job Titles:
  • Sample Caching System Chief

Matthew Smith

Job Titles:
  • Systems Engineer

Melody Ho

Job Titles:
  • Site Manager

Michael Thorpe

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist
As a child, Michael hoped to play pro football, but as a grownup Mars scientist, he looks forward to a potential future "touchdown" on Earth of Mars rocks gathered by the Perseverance rover.

Mitchell Schulte

Job Titles:
  • Program Scientist

Nagin Cox

Job Titles:
  • Operations Mission Lead

Nicholas Tallarida

Job Titles:
  • Technologist

Nicole Spanovich

Job Titles:
  • Science Office Manager

Patricia Nessen

Job Titles:
  • Business Administrator

Pauline Hwang

Job Titles:
  • Strategic Mission Manager

Raymond Francis

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Science Operations Chief

Rick Welch

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Project Manager
  • Project System Engineering Manager

Robin Beck

Job Titles:
  • Aerospace Engineer

Rusty Woodall

Job Titles:
  • Operations Mission Assurance Manager

Ryan Stern

Job Titles:
  • Engineer

Sarah Milkovich

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Science Office Manager

Soren Madsen

Job Titles:
  • Chief Engineer

Steve Lee

Job Titles:
  • Operations Mission Lead

Tanja Bosak

Job Titles:
  • Returned Sample Science Lead

Terence Dang

Job Titles:
  • Testbeds Lead

Theodore Tzanetos

Job Titles:
  • Mars Helicopter Project Team Lead

Tiffany Russell Lockett

Job Titles:
  • Project Engineer
A self-described "space nerd," Tiffany works on a rocket that could become the first ever to launch from another planet, as a component for Mars Sample Return.

Tom Kohne

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager