Erica's research interests include stochastic optimal control, trajectory optimization, and spacecraft GN&C. She is from Pensacola, FL and enjoys skiing and rock climbing in her free time. Erica is a former NASA Space Technology Research Fellow.

Vishal’s research is on modeling of atmospheric drag effects on satellite orbits to improve orbit prediction of satellites around Earth and other planetary atmospheres as well as extracting atmospheric density information from tracking data, funded by NASA’s FINESST grant. His hometown is Agartala, in north-Eastern India, but he spent his childhood in different parts of the country. When not working, you can find him exploring the wonders of night sky with his telescope, hiking or tending to his plants.

CK is from Chantilly, Virginia and is supported by a NASA space technology research fellowship. He holds bachelor’s degrees in aerospace engineering and physics from the University of Virginia and a master’s degree in aerospace engineering sciences from the University of Colorado Boulder. His research interests include spacecraft trajectory optimization, multi-agent coordination, differential games, and mission design & formulation.

Marielle is from South Florida. She loves to read and hike. She earned her PhD studying debris mitigation at high altitudes. She starts at Odyssey Space Research in October working on cislunar dynamics.

Conor’s research interests include small body rotational dynamics and attitude estimation. In addition to dynamical modeling, he collects and analyzes light curve and radar observations of retired satellites and asteroids to better understand their spin state evolution. Outside of research, he enjoys mountain biking, music, and road trips.

Alex is a Systems Engineer at JPL where he supports mission concept development and proposals. His PhD focused on dynamical modeling of the full two-body problem and binary asteroid systems with applications to asteroid evolution, parameter estimation, and in-situ spacecraft investigation.

Stefaan is a systems engineer helping to design Europe's first generation of deep-space CubeSats for asteroid exploration. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Delft Technical University and completed his PhD at CU Boulder in 2018, with a research focus on the deployment of small landers to asteroids and comets. He previously helped plan the deployment of the MINERVA-II rovers that explored the surface of asteroid Ryugu as part of JAXA's Hayabusa2 mission. In his free time, Stefaan enjoys hiking, backpacking, and skiing.

Nathan is the Optimization Lead at Advanced Space, LLC. There, he works on a variety of mission design, navigation, and artificial intelligence projects. These include innovative missions to Venus, Mars, the Moon, and Earth orbit. He has also lead Phase I, II, & III NASA SBIR contracts to develop new technologies.

Following graduation, Nicola joined the Japanese Aerospace eXploration Agency (JAXA) working on real-life space missions to the Moon and Phobos. He later joined the University of Surrey first as a Surrey Research Fellow and later as a Lecturer in Orbital Mechanics, researching on numerical continuation methods and the qualitative analysis of complex dynamical environments such as the vicinity of asteroids and planetary moons.

After completing his Bachelor's in Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M, near his hometown, David followed-up with an aero PhD at CU Boulder. His robotics-adjacent thesis topic led him toward research in control and trajectory planning for robot locomotion via machine learning approaches, which he has pursued as a postdoctoral researcher first at Rutgers University and now the University of Oxford.

Simon received his M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Supaero (Toulouse, France) in 2010. Under supervision of Dr. Scheeres, he received a PhD in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2014, on the topic of the deployment of landers to asteroid surfaces. Since June 2017 he has been working at CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales) in Toulouse in mission design and analysis. For the last few years, he has been mostly working on then the rover planned for the MMX mission (JAXA, launch in 2024), on the topics of mission analysis, science and autonomous navigation.

Dr. Rosengren served an Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering and of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Applied Mathematics at the University of Arizona for over three years, before joining the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC San Diego in July 2020. He worked at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece in the Department of Physics, and served as a member of the EU Asteroid and Space Debris Network, Stardust, working for two years at the Italian National Research Council. He held visiting researcher positions at the University of New South Wales, Canberra in Australia, the Asher Space Research Institute at Technion in Israel, the University of Rome Tor Vergata in Italy, and the Belgrade Astronomical Observatory in Serbia.

Yu Takahashi hails from Tokyo, Japan. He graduated with a B.S. from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Prescott campus) in 2007 and with a PhD from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2013. He joined JPL's Mission Design and Navigation section in 2013. Since then, he has worked on several missions including Dawn, OSIRIS-REx, and Juno. He's currently the orbit determination lead for Juno. He enjoys running, playing soccer, and brewing beer.

Seth A. Jacobson is an assistant Professor at Michigan State University leading the Planetary Makerspace. His students and he are planetary scientists who study the planets, moons, asteroids, and comets of the Solar System as well as other planetary systems with computational tools from the fields of celestial mechanics, geophysics, and geochemistry. Their science is driven by the big questions: Where did we come from? What else is out there? and, How unique is our history?

Christine Hartzell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland. Her research focuses on the behavior of grains dominated by non-gravitational forces, with an emphasis on the evolution of asteroids and design of spacecraft. Asteroid 9319 was named “Hartzell” in recognition of her contributions to the field of asteroid science. Dr. Hartzell is involved with the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sampling mission and the Janus (binary asteroid flyby) mission. In 2020, she was awarded an Early Career Award by NASA's Planetary Science Division. Prior to joining the faculty at UMD in 2014, Dr. Hartzell was a Keck Institute for Space Studies Postdoctoral Fellow at Caltech. She completed her PhD in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder and received her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech.

Oier is from San Sebastian, Spain, where he currently resides. After finishing his PhD in 2010 he continued to work with nanosatellites and drones. In 2016, he founded Alerion, a start-up developing autonomous drone and data analytics technology.

Gene Fahnestock is a navigation engineer in the Solar System Dynamics group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is currently supporting gravity field / dynamical model determination through processing of spacecraft tracking and other datatypes; and leading the Ejecta Working Group of the DART Investigation Team. Originally from southern-central Pennsylvania, Gene earned his B.S. in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the Ohio State University and then his M.S.E. and PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan. He also gained a diversity of science- and engineering-related professional experience before and during his graduate studies, prior to his arrival at JPL. His past and present research interests include: coupled orbital dynamics and rotational dynamics of multiple body systems in space, e.g. binary asteroids; variational integrators and advanced numerical simulation with parallel computing; spacecraft proximity operations in complex / irregular gravity fields, e.g. about asteroids and comets; and dynamical model and gravity field determination and analysis.

Dr. Ryan Park is the supervisor of the Solar System Dynamics (SSD) group at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), responsible for maintaining and improving JPL’s ephemeris database, which includes planets, natural satellites, asteroids, and comets, as well as their associated physical parameters, such as gravity field. Dr. Park has been involved in numerous NASA missions and studies, including Dawn Gravity Science Lead at Ceres, Juno Gravity Science Lead, Psyche Deputy Gravity Science Lead, Europa Clipper Gravity Science Co-I, and GRAIL Gravity Science team member, and Principal Investigator of the Advanced Pointing Imaging Camera (APIC) and Project Manager of Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). His research focuses on gravity/radio science, ephemeris development, shape determination, and planetary science. He is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California and an Associate Editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets and the Journal of the Astronautical Sciences.

Chan Park has been a Professor with Dept. of Astronomy, Yonsei Univ. at Seoul, Korea since March 2011. He obtained his B.S. from Seoul National Univ. in 1996, his M.S. from Georgia Tech in 2002, and his PhD from Univ. of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 2006. His research area lies in spacecraft trajectory design/optimization and navigation/control of space vehicles. Recently he is mainly working on POD of navigation satellites, coupled orbit-attitude control near asteroids, global trajectory design/optimization for multi-body exploration in Solar System.

Weiduo Hu is a professor in the school of astronautics at Beihang University, Beijing, China. He obtained his B.S. also at Beihang University in automatic control department. He teaches courses of Orbital Mechanics, Spacecraft Control, Linear Control System, etc. He published a book, Fundamental Spacecraft Dynamics and Control, by John Wiley and Sons, 2015. Now his research interest is asteroid gravity field modeling, calculation and its applications.