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

Pat Brennan

Science Writer

Angela Watson

Program Resource Analyst

Keith Gildea

Mechanical Engineer

Samantha Walters

Engineer

Xianzhe Jia

Scientist

Sumita Nandi

Engineer

Margaret Kivelson

Scientist

Giada Arney

Research Scientist

Joan Stupik

Engineer

Warren Kaye

Software Engineer

Abi Rymer

Scientist

Brent Buffington

Engineer

Nori Laslo

Systems Engineer – Payload Accommodation

Serina Diniega

Scientist

Barry Goldstein

Project Manager

Kelli McCoy

Systems Engineer

Michelle Easter

Mechatronics Engineer

Elizabeth Landau

Senior Storyteller

Abigail Fraeman

Deputy Project Scientist

Jia-Rui Cook

Supervisor of News Events and Projects

Umut Yildiz

Deep Space Communications Engineer

Rania Ghatas

Machine Systems Research Engineer

Eric De Jong (1947-2017)

Planetary Scientist