Presenter Erika DeBenedictis Erika is a former astronomer and current synthetic biologist. As an undergraduate at Caltech, Erika worked on topics in computational physics including space mission orbit design at NASA and computational protein design at D. E. Shaw Research. Erika worked with Kevin Esvelt at MIT during her PhD, where she used laboratory automation… Continue reading Erika DeBenedictis | Green Mars: Humanity’s Climate-Positive Future in Space
Presenter Garret Fitzpatrick Garret Fitzpatrick is a Principal Investigator and Project Engineer at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, where he leads engineering teams to develop systems and instrumentation to help us better understand the Universe. Previously, Garret served as a systems engineer at the NASA Ames Research Center, where he led the engineering development of a… Continue reading Garret Fitzpatrick | An Earth-sized Telescope And An Arc On The Moon
Presenter Matthew Allcock Matthew is a space weather consultant working to improve resilience of critical infrastructure across Europe. He recently led a major project on space weather risk to UK critical national infrastructure which involved interviews and workshops with 100+ industry representatives across the space, energy, communications, and transport sectors, leading to recommendations to policymakers… Continue reading Dr. Matthew Allcock | Building Resilient Infrastructure for Space Weather
Presenter Chris McKay Dr. Chris McKay’s research focuses on the evolution of the solar system and the origin of life. He is also actively involved in planning for future Mars missions, including human exploration. Dr. McKay has been involved with polar and desert research, traveling to the Antarctic Dry Valleys, the Atacama Desert, the Arctic,… Continue reading Chris McKay | Life on Mars: Past, Present, Future
Presenter Clémence Poirier Clémence Poirier is a Senior Researcher in the Cyberdefense Project within the Risk and Resilience Team at the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Prior to joining CSS, she was a Research Fellow at the European Space Policy Institute (ESPI) in Vienna, Austria where she conducted multidisciplinary research on… Continue reading Clémence Poirier | Is There A Cyberwar In Outer Space? Lessons From The War In Ukraine
Presenter Mariam Naseem Mariam Naseem is a Polar & Planetary Science Researcher and Ph.D. student at the University of Maryland, College Park where she investigates geological processes on icy ocean worlds through terrestrial analogs. Prior to commencing her Ph.D., Mariam worked with the Industry Relations team at the Canadian Space Agency to support Canadian space… Continue reading Mariam Naseem | How Earth Studies Guide the Search for Habitability on Icy Worlds
Presenter Robert Lillis Rob Lillis is the Associate Director for Planetary Science at the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory and the Principal Investigator of the ESCAPADE twin spacecraft NASA Mars orbiter mission. He is a planetary space physicist and geophysicist specializing in three main areas: 1) planetary aeronomy, including auroral processes, atmospheric escape, and ionospheric… Continue reading Robert Lillis | ESCAPADE: Lessons Learned for Cost-effective Deep Space Exploration
