People

Dream Job

“It’s important to remind ourselves that we have the most glorious jobs in the world. We are all paid to figure out how the universe began and how it evolves. We’re paid to try to figure out how the night sky, full of galaxies and stars and planets, came to be. And we’re paid to try to find life elsewhere in the universe. What could be better than that?” 

–Paul Hertz, Director of Astrophysics Division

Jim McClure

Space Flight Operations Facility Manager

David Kring

Senior Staff Scientist

Ashwin Vasavada

Project Scientist

Lucy McFadden

Co-Investigator

Chris Ratzlaff

Product Manager

Jonathan Lunine

Scientist

Nancy Neal Jones

Public Affairs Lead

Aaron Parness

Engineer

Alexandru Enachioaie

Citizen Scientist / Site Reliability Engineer for Altmetric

Diana Blaney

Scientist

Robert (Bob) Pappalardo

Europa Mission Project Scientist

Tamara Stajić

Citizen Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer

Brandon Rodriguez

Education Specialist

Jack Kaye

Associate Director for Research

Catherine Walker

Glaciologist

Jeffrey Robert Bouwman

Citizen Scientist / Middle School Science Teacher / Adjunct Professor

Hal Levison

Scientist

Jim Bridenstine

NASA Administrator

Keri Bean

Science Planner

Alicia Joseph

Research Physical Scientist / Activity Manager for MAIANSE - Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) for American Indian Alaska Native STEM Engagement

Mike Brown

Astronomer

Suzanne "Suzy" Dodd

Project Manager