LifeSpringsMARS
Science Team
Professor Kathleen Campbell
PROGRAM MANAGER
Professor Martin Van Kranendonk
Associate Research Professor Steve Ruff
Director, Te Ao Mārama Centre for Fundamental Inquiry
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Geology and paleoecology of active and fossil hot springs
Australian Centre for Astrobiology
University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia
Geology of early Earth, earliest life astrobiology
Mars Space Flight Facility
Arizona State University, USA
Planetary scientist, NASA Spirit Rover science team member
Associate Professor Michael Rowe
University of Auckland, New Zealand
Geochemistry, mineralogy, petrology, volcanology, hot spring sinter
Special Appointment Professor Eizo Nakamura
Director, Pheasant Memorial Laboratory
Institute for Planetary Materials
Okayama University, Japan
Geochemistry of planetary materials, including Ryugu samples from JAXA's Hyabusa II mission
Dr Tomaso Bontognali
Space Exploration Institute
University of Basel, Switzerland
European Space Agency
Biomineralisation in microbial communities
Professor Penny King
Professor Trevor Ireland
Professor Katarina Miljkovic
Australian National University
Mission architecture
University of Queensland
Geochemical and isotopic analysis
Curtin University
NASA Grail and Insight missions team member
Impact cratering, planetary science
Dr Rebecca Allen
Co-Director, Space Technology and Industry Institute
Swinburne University of Technology
Astrophysics, earth observation, and microgravity research
Dr Eriita Jones
Curtin University
Remote sensing imagery
Engineering Team
Assistant Professor Naoya Ozaki
JAXA
Team Lead: Mission design
Assistant Professor Jun Asakawa
University of Tokyo
Satellite/Cubesat
Assistant Professor Akihiro Iwasaki
Osaka University
Mars ascent vehicle
Professor Serkan Saydam
University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia
Advanced mining technologies, space resources engineering
Assistant Professor Takao Maeda
Chuo University
Sample collection
Professor Andrew Dempster
University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia
Satellite navigation and communication, remote sensing
Professor Claude Sammut
University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia
Robotics
Dr Andrew Ang
Swinburne University
Co-Director Space Technology and Industry Institute
Materials and coatings
Advisory Board
Dr Brett Biddington, AM
Biddington Research Pty Ltd
Canberra, Australia
Space and cyber policy research
Dr Mitchell Schulte
Program Scientist
Mars Exploration Program
NASA Headquarters
Washington DC, USA
Dr Yoshifumi Inatani
Professor of Space Systems and Astronautics
Former Deputy Director General of
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency/
Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
Jean-Luc Josset
Director, Space Exploration Institute (SPACE-X)
European Space Agency
Principal Investigator of CLUPI
(Close-Up Imager) and co-PI of PanCam on the ExoMars rover
Neuchâtel, Switzerland