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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)
Rejane Cantoni
Artist
Rejane Cantoni is an artist based in São Paulo, Brazil. She studied communication, semiotics, visualization of information systems, and kinematic interfaces in both São Paulo, Brazil, and Geneva, Switzerland. She holds multiple graduate degrees and has taught mathematics, physics, and technology at the Catholic University of São Paulo.
Tanja Masson-Zwaan
University of Leiden, The Netherlands
Tanja is President Emerita of the International Institute of Space Law (IISL). She advises the Dutch Government on space law issues and co-founded the Hague International Space Resources Governance Working Group. She served on various Boards, including the European Centre for Space Law, Women in Aerospace-Europe, the Netherlands Space Society and Secure World Foundation.
Amy Salzhauer
Founder and Managing Partner at Good Growth Capital
Amy is the Founder and Managing Partner at Good Growth Capital, an early-stage venture capital fund with an exceptional track record of funding and founding early-stage, transformative science companies. Her team has the operating experience and technical expertise to assess, launch, and grow deep technology companies and science-based businesses.
Scott Webster
Chairman of the Board of Telesat Government Solutions
Scott is a chairman of Telesat Government Solutions–Telesat’s US subsidiary focussed on the successful rollout of Lightspeed, Telesat’s LEO-satellite-based global broadband communications services….distinguished by unique, low-latency and inherently secure laser crosslinks
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.
