Mission Team

While numerous individuals make vital contributions without which this mission could not occur, key team members include:

Mars 2020 Project
Project Manager	John B. McNamee
Deputy Project Manager	Matthew T. Wallace
Deputy Project Manager / Surface Dev and Ops	Jennifer Trosper
Advisor to Project Management	Gun-Shing Chen
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
Project System Engineering
Project System Engineering Manager	Rick Welch
Deputy Project System Engineering Manager	Kirk Breitenbach
Project V&V	Jennifer Maxwell
Chief Engineer Office
Chief Engineer	Adam Steltzner
Deputy Chief Engineer	Keith Comeaux
Deputy Chief Engineer	Soren Madsen
Deputy Chief Engineer	Jason Gates
Deputy Chief Engineer	Ian Clark
Flight System
Flight Systems Manager	Raymond Baker
Assistant Flight Systems Manager	Jeff Weiss
ATLO Manager	Dave Gruel
Deputy ATLO Manager	Art Thompson
Testbeds Manager	Eric Aguilar
Deputy Testbeds Manager	Arman Toorian
Flight System Systems Engineer Lead	Jessica Samuels
Deputy Flight System Systems Engineer Lead	Magdy Bareh
Surface Development
Surface Development Office Manager	Jennifer Trosper
Deputy Surface Development Office Manager	Arthur Amador
Surface Systems Manager	Jessica Samuels
Deputy Surface Systems Manager	Robert Hogg
Surface Mission Operations Systems (MOS) Manager	Pauline Hwang
Instrument and Science Operations Manager	Nicole Spanovich
Assistant Surface Development Manager	Michael Wilson
Surface CE	Richard Welch
Deputy Surface CE	Grace Tan-Wang
Sample Caching System (SCS) Manager	Keith Rosette
Deputy Sample Cashing System Manager	Matt Robinson
Chief Mechanical Engineer	Richard Rainen
Deputy Chief Mechanical Engineer	Mohamed Abid
Power / Pyro	Armen Mnatsakanian
Launch, Cruise, Approach, EDL (LCAE) Flight Operations
Launch, Cruise, Approach, EDL (LCAE) Mission Manager	Keith Comeaux
Launch, Cruise, Approach, EDL Deputy Mission Manager	Fernando Abilleira
Launch, Cruise & Approach Phase Lead	John Essmiller
Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) Phase Lead	Al Chen
Cross-Cutting Phase Lead	Magdy Bareh
Cruise Operations Development Manager	Arthur Amador
Deputy Cruise Operations Development Manager	Michael Wilson
Navigation Team Chief	Gerhard Kruizinga
Payload
Payload Manager	Soren Madsen
Deputy Payload Manager	Kevin Clark
Payload System Engineer	Joan Ervin
Mission Assurance
Mission Assurance Manager	Mark Underwood
Deputy Mission Assurance Manager	Cate Harris
Assistant Mission Assurance Manager	Michael Robinson
Operations Mission Assurance Manager	Rusty Woodall
Business / Administration Team
Business Manager	Todd Cetti
Project Resource Analyst Lead	Audrey Joya
Project Schedule Analyst Lead	Tim Clark
Business Administration Manager	Page Garcia
Business Administrator	Amy Dickinson
Project Staff Assistant	Monica Hopper
Project Staff Assistant	Victoria Sanchez

Principal Investigators

Mastcam-Z	James Bell Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA Full Team List
MEDA	Jose Rodriguez-Manfredi Centro de Astrobiologia, Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial, Spain Full Team List
MOXIE	Michael Hecht Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA Full Team List
PIXL	Abigail Allwood NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA, USA Full Team List
RIMFAX	Svein-Erik Hamran Forsvarets Forskningsinstitutt, Norway Full Team List
SHERLOC	Luther Beegle NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA, USA Full Team List
SuperCam	Roger Wiens Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA Full Team List

View also members of the science definition team.