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We are advancing society through exploration
We strive to embrace diversity in all its forms, including race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, age, ability, veteran status, and neurotype. We believe achieving greater diversity in our faculty, staff, and partners will advance our mission to create positive space futures.
Our team is built on character, rooted in deliberation, and energized through action. Respect, curiosity, and inclusivity drive our culture and the space futures we seek to create.
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Michael Crow
President & Professor
An academic leader and educator, science and technology policy scholar, he is guiding the transformation of ASU into one of the nation’s leading public metropolitan research universities
Linda Elkins-Tanton
Vice President
Lindy Elkins-Tanton is the vice president of the Interplanetary Initiative at ASU and Principal Investigator of the NASA Psyche mission. She received her doctorate from MIT in 2002.
Expertise Areas:
Planetary Sciences, Higher and Postsecondary Education
Jessica Rousset
Director
Expertise Areas:
Biotechnology, Intellectual Property, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Business Process Management, Strategic Planning, Business Model Innovation, Leadership, Corporate Strategy, Marketing, Biomedical Engineering, Technological Entrepreneurship and Management
Joe DuBois
Sr. Engineer, Interplanetary Laboratory
Joe DuBois (jdubois2@asu.edu) has 30 years of experience in small satellite design and development. Starting in 1990, he helped grow the startup Spectrum Astro for 10 years and 5 spacecraft developments. His work at Spectrum Astro and later Honeywell earned him 7 patents for spacecraft architecture and components. In 2017, DuBois joined ASU as a lead in the development of the LunaH-Map cubesat. He is now at the ASU Interplanetary Initiative managing the Interplanetary Laboratory.
Evgenya Shkolnik
Associate Director
Evgenya Shkolnik is a professor of
astrophysics at the School of Earth
and Space Exploration at Arizona State
University. She is an expert on stars,
exoplanets, and the potential habitability
of exoplanetary systems.
Expertise Areas:
Astrophysics, Astronomy
Sid Vaidy
Student Lab Lifeguard)
The Interplanetary Scholars represent a broad range of educators, scholars, thinkers, and researchers across and outside of ASU who aspire to create an inclusive and sustainable interplanetary future, and have ideas on how to get there.
