Edwin Kite

Edwin Kite is a tenured professor at the University of Chicago and a member of the Mars Curiosity rover science team. His research group works on the past, present, and future habitability of the Solar System and exoplanets. Kite has authored or co-authored more than 80 scientific papers, served for six years on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science, and is a co-recipient of the Newcomb Cleveland Prize. Prior to joining UChicago, Kite held prize postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton and at Caltech.