Founder and Lead
Faculty Mentors and Advisors
Maria Zuber, MIT VP for Research
Joseph Paradiso, PI and Director, Responsive Environments group, Media Lab
Dava Newman, Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics, MIT AeroAstro
SEI Staff and Program Volunteers
Maggie Coblentz, Researcher & Designer
Albert R. Antosca, Program Manager
Xin Liu, Arts Curator
Kate McCall-Kiley, Space Governance Lead
Nadia Khan, Lunar Open Architecture Lead
Sands Fish, Staff Designer
Sean Auffinger, Mission Integrator
Sana Sharma, Staff Designer
Jamie Milliken, Staff Engineer
Noah Feehan, Staff Engineer
Fangzheng Liu, Research Associate
Becca Browder, Research Associate
Martin Nisser, Research Associate
Ari Melenciano, Research Associate
Simone Williams, Space Science Communications
Ciarra Ortiz, Space Health Researcher
Michelle (Shu-Yu) Lin, Research Associate
50+ Graduate Students, Staff, and Faculty Researchers Involved
Media Lab
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MIT Research Collaborators
Oli de Weck, Engineering Systems Laboratory, AeroAstro
Jeffrey Hoffman, HSL, AeroAstro
Kerri Cahoy, STAR Lab, AeroAstro
Chris Carr, Georgia Tech [former Zuber Lab, EAPS]
Julien de Wit, EAPS
Ben Weiss, EAPS
Nicholas de Monchaux, Architecture
Stefanie Mueller, CSAIL
MIT Lincoln Laboratory Collaborators
Marc Bernstein, Associate Director [Now at the Pentagon]
Bob Shin, Beaverworks
Ken Gregson, Beaverworks
Dan Cousins, Climate CubeSat Co-building program collaborator
Jillian James, Climate CubeSat Co-building program collaborator
Research Affiliates, Visiting Researchers, Honorary Members
Cady Coleman, ret. NASA Astronaut
Paolo Nespoli, ESA Astronaut and Engineer
Leland Melvin, ret. NASA Astronaut & Media Lab Director's Fellow
Hajime Yano, JAXA (Japanese Space Agency)
Margarita Mora, NiaTero & Media Lab Director's Fellow
Andrea Lauer, Broadway costume designer & Media Lab Director's Fellow
Aswin Venkatapathy, Visiting Researcher, TU Dortmund
Sunanda Sharma, Mediated Matter
Erbu Kurbak, Senior Research Fellow, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Valentina Sumini, Visiting Professor, Politecnico di Milano
UROPs (MIT Undergraduate Researchers)
Nory Klop-Packel [Summer 2021]
Rohan Wagh [Summer 2021]
Claire Wichman [Spring 2021]
Antonella Masini [Spring 2021]
Aidan Padilla [Spring 2021]
Ariel Mobius [Spring 2021]
Elissa Gibson [Spring 2021]
Lilly Papalia [Spring 2021]
Kelly Ho [Spring 2021]
Isabella Torres [Spring 2021]
Emma Kelley [Spring 2021]
Valeria Gutierrez [Spring 2021]
Bernardo Hasbach [Spring 2021]
Peter C Williams [Fall 2019]
David Turner [Fall 2019]
Mehitabel Glenhaber [Summer 2018]
Aye Htun [Spring 2018 --> Summer 2018]
Siranush Babakhanova [Fall 2017 --> Spring 2018]
Elisheva Shuter [Fall 2017 --> Spring 2018]
Tesla Wells [Spring 2018]