Mission Team
The Team for Jezero Crater : Members of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission pose at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which manages the mission, on July 17, 2019. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Download image ›
The Mars 2020 Perseverance team is made up of scientists and engineers from multiple disciplines, with international participation from countries and organizations around the world. The science team includes principal investigators from the U.S., Spain, and Norway. While numerous individuals make vital contributions without which this mission could not occur, key team members include:
Mars 2020 Project
Project Manager Art Thompson
Deputy Project Manager Rick Welch
Deputy for Operations & Anomalies Steve Lee
Project Scientist Ken Farley
Deputy Project Scientist Katie Stack Morgan
At NASA Headquarters
Program Executive George Tahu
Program Scientist Mitchell Schulte
Deputy Program Scientist Adrian Brown
Science Office
Project Scientist Ken Farley
Deputy Project Scientist Ken Williford
Deputy Project Scientist Katie Stack Morgan
Science Office Manager Nicole Spanovich
Assistant Science Office Manager Sarah Milkovich
Principal Investigators
Mastcam-Z Jim Bell
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
MEDA Jose Rodriguez-Manfredi
Centro de Astrobiologia, Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial, Spain
MOXIE Michael Hecht
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
PIXL Abigail Allwood
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA, USA
RIMFAX Svein-Erik Hamran
Forsvarets Forskningsinstitutt, Norway
SHERLOC Luther Beegle
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA, USA
SuperCam Roger Wiens
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA
Returned Sample Science Leads
Returned Sample Science Lead Tanja Bosak
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Returned Sample Science Lead Christopher Herd
University of Alberta, Canada
Project System Engineering
Project System Engineering Manager Rick Welch
Chief Engineer Office
Chief Engineer Soren Madsen
Surface Operations
Mission Manager and Sample Caching System (SCS) Phase Lead Jessica Samuels
Deputy Mission Manager and Surface Phase Lead Robert Hogg
Operations Mission Lead Nagin Cox
Operations Mission Lead Magdy Bareh
Operations Mission Lead Steve Lee
Operations Mission Lead Diana Trujillo
Operations Mission Lead Daniel Zayas
Cross-Cutting Phase Lead Andre Girerd
Engineering Operations Chief Loren Jones
Deputy Engineering Operations Chief Teerapat Khanampornpan
Robotic Operations Chief Frank Hartman
Deputy Robotic Operations Chief Arturo Rankin
Science Operations Chief Kimberly Maxwell
Deputy Science Operations Chief Raymond Francis
Instrument Operations Chief Justin Maki
Deputy Instrument Operations Chief Amy Culver
Sample Caching System Chief Matthew Robinson
Deputy Sample Caching System Chief Avi Okon
Sampling and Caching Chief Engineer Louise Jandura
Flight Software & Testbeds Manager Bryan Martin
Flight Software Development, Cognizant Engineer Ian Trettel
Testbeds Lead Terence Dang
Strategic Mission Manager Pauline Hwang
Strategic Development Mission Manager Magdy Bareh
Spacecraft Development and V&V Lead Mary Lam
GDS Manager Amy Attiyah
GDS Chief Engineer Guy Pyrzak
GDS Operations, Team Chief Matthew Triviski
GDS Operations, Deputy Team Chief Sorasit Wanichpan
GDS Development Lead Usha Guduri
Mission Assurance Manager Mark Underwood
Operations Mission Assurance Manager Rusty Woodall
Mars Helicopter Project Team Lead Theodore Tzanetos
Chief Engineer for the Mars Helicopter Project Bob Balaram
Business / Administration Team
Business Manager Tom Kohne
Project Resource Analyst Lead Audrey Joya
Business Administrator Patricia Nessen