Nick Siegler

Dr. Nick Siegler is an astrophysicist and the Chief Technologist for NASA’s Exoplanet Exploration Program located at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. With collaborators from all over the country he helps identify and mature technologies needed to enable possible future NASA missions that will ultimately look for evidence of life on exoplanets. He has worked in a variety of systems engineering and project management roles for the last nine years. Prior to JPL, Dr. Siegler held astronomy research positions at the University of Arizona as well as various operations management positions with subsidiaries of Unilever at various domestic and international locations. Dr. Siegler received his Ph.D. and Masters in astronomy from the University of Arizona, a master’s in international business from the Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands, and a bachelor’s in chemical engineering from the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey.