2018 Psyche team photo.

The Full Psyche Team

Meet the full team of people helping to make Psyche possible!

NASA Headquarters (HQ)

Bo Trieu (Psyche Program Executive [PE], HQ)
Sarah Noble (Psyche Program Scientist [PS], HQ)
Alana Johnson (PSD Senior Communications Specialist, HQ)
Erin Morton (PSD Senior Communications Specialist, HQ)

Planetary Mission Program Office (MSFC)

Zach Greenwood (Psyche Mission Manager, MSFC)

Project Management

Robert Mase (Project Manager, JPL)
G. Mark Brown (Contract Technical Manager [CTM] for Intuitive Machines – West [IMW – formerly Maxar/Lanteris] and APL Subcontract, JPL)
Hardy K Fuller (Staff Assistant, JPL)

Business Management

Mark Shipley (Project Resource Analyst [PRA], JPL)
Lauren Fernandez (APL Subcontract Manager, JPL)
Richard Chiou (IMW Subcontract Manager, JPL)
Yuriy Tsurkan (MIT Subcontract Manager, JPL)

Project Chief Engineer

Alexander Lumnah (Project Chief Engineer, JPL)
G Mark Brown (Senior Technical Advisor, JPL)
Dan Goebel (Senior Technical Advisor, JPL)
Peter Meakin (Senior Technical Advisor, JPL)
David Oh (Senior Technical Advisor, JPL)
Marc Rayman (Senior Technical Advisor, JPL)

Project Systems Engineering

Kristina Larson (Cruise & Orbital Phase – Lead, JPL)
Austin Nicholas (Project Systems Engineer, JPL)
Myra Lattimore (Project Systems Engineer, JPL)
Leina Hutchinson (Project Systems Engineer, JPL)
Zubin Olikara (Project Systems Engineer, JPL)
Alexis Diaz (IMCM, JPL)
Fei Chen (Planetary Protection, JPL)

Safety and Mission Assurance

Genevie Yang (Operations Mission Assurance Manager [OMAM], JPL)
Joshua Lee (Reliability Engineer, JPL)
James Mertz (Software Quality Assurance [SQA], JPL)

Science Office

Lindy Elkins-Tanton (Principal Investigator, Berkeley)
Benjamin Weiss (Deputy PI Magnetometry Investigation – Lead, MIT)
Carol Polanskey (Project Scientist, JPL)
Sona Seely (Assistant to the Principal Investigator, Berkeley)
Stephanie Holaday (Business Operations Manager – Sr., ASU)
Kylie Doran (Business Manager, ASU)

Co-Investigators

Erik Asphaug (Collisional formation modeling, U of A)
Jim Bell (Imager instrument – Lead, ASU)
Bruce Bills (Determination of density model and rotational dynamics, JPL)
Rick Binzel (Small body compositional/mineralogic, MIT)
Bill Bottke (Solar system origin/evolution modeling, SWRI)
Catherine Bowman (Student Collaborations – Lead, ASU)
Ralf Jaumann (Topography Working Group – Lead, FU-Berlin)
Insoo Jun (Calibration and modeling of the 3He neutron spectrometer sensors, SNU)
David Lawrence (GRNS instrument – Lead, APL)
Simone Marchi (Relative Ages Working Group – Lead, SWRI)
Tim McCoy (Oxidizing/Reducing Working Group – Lead, Smithsonian)
José M.G. Merayo (Magnetometer investigation, DTU)
Joseph O’Rourke (Surface/interior geophysical processes, ASU)
Katharina Otto (DLR Topography & Geomorphology – Lead, DLR)
Ryan Park (Gravity Science Deputy Investigation – Lead, JPL)
Patrick Peplowski (Gamma-Ray Spectrometer Instrument Scientist, APL)
Tom Prettyman (Light Elements Working Group – Lead, PSI)
Carol Raymond (Magnetometer Operations – Lead, JPL)
Thomas Roatsch – Emeritus (Topography Working Group, DLR)
Chris Russell – Emeritus (Magnetometer science, UCLA)
Daniel Wenkert (Mission Archive Scientist; Data Archive Working Group – Lead., JPL)
Mark Wieczorek (Determination of geophysical signature of impact craters, OCA)
David Williams (Geologic mapping – Lead and Deputy Imager instrument – Lead, ASU)
Maria Zuber (Gravity Science investigation – Lead, MIT)

Science Team Collaboration

Amanda Alexander (Collaborator of Simone Marchi, SWRI)
Namya Baijal (Student Collaborator of Erik Asphaug, U of A)
John Biersteker (Collaborator of Maria Zuber, MIT)
Chandler Brooks (Studet Collaborator of Simone Marchi, UC Boulder)
Morgan Burks (Collaborator of David Lawrence, LLNL)
Eric Burns (Collaborator of David Lawrence, LSU)
Saverio Cambioni (Collaborator of Ben Weiss, MIT)
Sam Courville (Collaborator of Lindy Elkins-Tanton & Joe O’Rouke, ASU)
Allison Davis (Student Collaborator of Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Berkeley)
Stephan Elgner (Collaborator of Katharina Otto, DLR)
Martin Jutzi (Collaborator of Erik Asphaug, U of Bern)
Elke Kersten (Collaborator of Katharina Otto, DLR)
Alex Konopliv (Collaborator of Ryan Park, JPL)
Madison Liebel (Student Collaborator of Patrick Peplowski, UC Boulder)
Klaus-Dieter Matz (Collaborator of Katharina Otto, DLR)
Robert Melikyan (Student Collaborator of Erik Asphaug, U of A)
Isaac Narrett (Student Collaborator of Ben Weiss, MIT)
Alicia Neesemann (Collaborator of Ralf Jaumann, FU-Berlin)
David M. Nelson (Collaborator of David Williams, ASU)
Frank Preusker (Collaborator of Katharina Otto, DLR)
Jodie Ream (Collaborator of Ben Weiss, MIT)
Katrin Stephan (Collaborator of Katharina Otto, DLR)
Sebastian Walter (Collaborator of Ralf Jaumann, FU-Berlin)
Hanying Wei (Collaborator of Ben Weiss, UCLA)
Annabelle Zerby (Student Collaborator of Jim Bell, ASU)
Kim McGrath (Exec Assistant for Maria Zuber, MIT)

SEP Chassis (Intuitive Machines – West [IMW])

Peter Lord (SEP Chassis Program Manager, IMW)
Shane Malone (Systems Engineering Manager (SEM), IMW)
Raul Silva (Product Assurance Program Manager (PAPM), IMW)
David Horton (Mission Operations Manager, IMW)
Ashley Junkins (Finance, IMW)
Mya Nelson (Finance, IMW)
Derek Mikulski (Contracts, IMW)
Yahayra Ramos (Administrative Assistant, IMW)
Zack Pirkl (Power/Avionics, IMW)
Mike Rowell (Battery, IMW)
Paul Linggi (Thermal, IMW)
Aditi Ratnaparkhi (GNC, IMW)
Ian Johnson (SPT/CGS, IMW)
Patrick Amidjojo (Solar Array, IMW)

Flight Team

Mission Management

Timothy Weise (Mission Manager, JPL)
Charles Scott (Deputy Mission Manager, JPL)

Mission Ops Systems Engineering

Sarah Bairstow (Mission Planning – Lead, JPL)
Christopher Lawler (Mission Planning, JPL)
Maria Schellpfeffer (Mission Ops System Engineer [MOSE]/ Mission Planner, JPL)
Sandra Bottenfield (MS Configuration Management Engineer, JPL)
Michael Cirineo (Cyber Security SE, JPL)

Mission Integration Manager

Theresa Rosette (MIM, JPL)

Mission Control Team

Brandon Ess (Venue Reliability Engineer – Lead, JPL)
Nshan Kazaryan (Venue Reliability Engineer, JPL)
Nshan S Kazaryan (VRE, JPL)
Ashton Vaughs (ACE – Lead, JPL)
John Ibanez (ACE, JPL)
Robert Lineaweaver (ACE, JPL)

Spacecraft Team

Toni Feldman (Spacecraft Team Chief, JPL)

Systems

Marisol Arenas (Systems Engineer, JPL)
Jessica Call (Systems Engineer, JPL)
Kyle Cloutier (Systems Engineer, JPL)
Kristina Hogstrom (Systems Engineer, JPL)
Lindsey Smith (Systems Engineer, JPL)
Emma Young (Systems Engineer, JPL)

Subsystems

Joanna Sarkisian (Avionics – Lead, JPL)
George Sun (Avionics, JPL)
Amy Vogel (Avionics, JPL)
Alex Lumnah (Fault Protection – Lead (Acting), JPL)
Haley A Bates-Tarasewicz (Fault Protection, JPL)
Leina Hutchinson (Fault Protection, JPL)
Fatma Karsten (Fault Protection, JPL)
George Sun (Flight Software – Lead, JPL)
Yan Brenman (Flight Software, JPL)
Stephen Kroese (Flight Software, JPL
Abby Couto (GNC – Lead, JPL)
Paige Arthur (GNC, JPL)
Martin Cacan (GNC, JPL)
Daniel Cervantes (GNC Tools, JPL)
Steven Collins (GNC, JPL)
Myra Lattimore (GNC, JPL)
Jessica Navarro (GNC, JPL)
David Sternberg (GNC, JPL)
Jonathan Summer (GNC, JPL)
Michael Ying (GNC, JPL)
Son Nguyen (Power – Lead, JPL)
Joel Schwartz (Power, JPL)
Andreea Boca (Power – Support, JPL)
Richard Chesko (Power – Support, JPL)
Stephen Dawson (Power – Support, JPL)
Steve Snyder (Propulsion – Lead, JPL)
Charles Garner (Propulsion, JPL)
Arthur Na-Nakornpanom (Thermal – Lead, JPL)
Rezwanur Rahman (Thermal, JPL)
Rogelio Rosas (Thermal, JPL)
Nickolas Emis (Thermal – Consultant, JPL)
Andres Hernandez (Telecom – Lead, JPL)
Charles Wang (Telecom, JPL)
Julia Crowley Farenga (Testbed – Lead, JPL)
Lindsey Smith (Testbed, JPL)
Justine West (Testbed – Tools, JPL)
Amy R Vogel (SSE – Lead, JPL)

Mission Design and Navigation Team [MDNAV]

Don Han (Navigation Team Chief, JPL)
Gregory Whiffen (Mission/Trajectory Design – Lead, JPL)
David Garza (Mission/Trajectory Design, JPL)
Dayung Koh (Mission/Trajectory Design, JPL)
Zubin Olikara (Mission/Trajectory Design, JPL)
Anastassios Petropoulos (Mission/Trajectory Design, JPL)
Drew Jones (Orbit Determination – Lead, JPL)
Jesse Greaves (Orbit Determination Analyst, JPL)
Courtney Hollenberg (Orbit Determination Analyst, JPL)
Dayung Koh (Orbit Determination Analyst, JPL)
Nickolaos Mastrodemos (Optical Navigation, JPL)
Boris Semenov (NAIF, JPL)
Matthew Barnes (NAIF, JPL)
Alyssa Bailey (NAIF, JPL)

Mission Planning and Sequencing Team [MPS]

Benjamin Redfield (MPS Team – Lead, JPL)
Luis Ortiz (MPS Engineer, JPL)
Travis Wagner (MPST Engineer, JPL)
Antonina Andrukh (Tracking Service Scheduling, JPL)
Adam Spanier (Tracking Service Scheduling, JPL)

Science Operations Support Team

Nora Alonge (SOS Team Chief – Lead, JPL)
Sarah Bairstow (Science Planner, JPL)
Elizabeth Barrett (Science Planner, JPL)
Carolyn Ortega (Science Planner, JPL)
Kyle Cloutier (Mag Ops – Lead, JPL)

Multispectral Imager Team

Mike Walworth (Imager Ops – Lead, ASU)
Andrew Winhold (Imager Test and Calibration – Lead, ASU)
Hannah Zigo (Imager Ops, ASU)
Nicole Gonzales (Imager Ops, ASU)
Madeline Marquardt (Imager Calibration Pipeline, ASU)

Gamma-Ray and Neutron Spectrometer (GRNS) Team

Patrick Peplowski (GRNS Instrument Scientist, APL)
Raymond Espiritu (GRNS Instrument Ops, APL)
John Goldsten (GRNS Instrument Engineer, APL)

Magnetometer Team

Jodie Ream (Magnetometer Instrument Scientist, MIT)
Kyle Cloutier (Magnetometer Ops – Lead, JPL)
Matthew Wall (Magnetometer Ops IT Specialist, MIT)

Ground Data System [GDS]

Marla Thornton (GDS Manager, JPL)
Sam Siri (GDS Engineer – Lead, JPL)
Madonna Ryan (GDS Integration, Test and Deployment [ITD] – Lead, JPL)
Michael Cirineo (Cyber Security Engineer, JPL)
Russell Hope (System Administrator, JPL)
Lee Fickenscher (System Administrator, JPL)
Kolin Hand (System Administrator, JPL)
Kevin Lee (System Administrator, JPL)
J. P. Pan (MMCS, JPL)
Brandon Ess (GDS Software and Tools, JPL)
Robert Puncel (CS3/TSQDB/DOM, JPL)
Wai Phyo (mSDS – Lead, JPL)

Science Data Center

Ernest Cisneros (SDC Manager, ASU)
Madeline Marquardt (Programmer, ASU)
Lauren Auchterlonie (Data Archivist, ASU)
Dean A Styx (SA, ASU)
Nathan Cluff (SA, ASU)

Media, Communications, and Outreach

Ian O’Neill (Media, JPL)
Catherine Bowman (Student Collaborations – Lead, ASU)
Suryansh Bhupesh Purohit (Student Intern, ASU)
Omkar Sapkal (Student Intern, ASU)
Nishtha Kukreja (Student Intern, ASU)
Hetvi Patel (Student Intern, ASU)
Leila Wrschka (Student Intern, ASU)

Mission Website Design

Matt Agro (Senior Art Director, Fervor Creative)
Don Newlan (Creative Director, Fervor Creative)
Andrew Sapiens (Web Designer/Developer, Fervor Creative)
Joe di Stefano (Web Developer, Fervor Creative)
Chris Vasquez (Artist [Psyche instrument sketches], ASU)

Mission Films

Cary Truelick (Executive Producer and Director, True Story Films)
Katelyn Fukayama (Producer, True Story Films)

Mission Photography

Brad Hendron (Photographer, Brad Hendron Photography)