Leadership


Our Founding team encompasses leaders, researchers, and faculty designing the curriculum and courses of the first academic programs dedicated to making life multi-planetary. Our team builds upon decades of in-depth experience in science, engineering, Mars, space technology, and exploration.

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Co-founder, MarsU

Founder, Mars Foundation

Bruce Mackenzie
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Co-founder and Chairman, MarsU

Kolemann Lutz
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Nadeem Khattak

Director of Student Services,

MarsU

Founding Faculty and Researchers

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Jonathon Clarke, PhD

Professor,

Swinburne University

Skill: Mars Geology

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Founder, GrowMars

Skill: Agriculture and Biotechnology

Daniel Tompkins
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Ilaria Cinelli, PhD

President, Aerospace Human Factors Assocation 

Skill: Human Factors, Biomedical engineering

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Graham Lau, PhD

Research Scientist,

Blue Marble

Skill: Astrobiology

Board Advisors

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David Smyth

Director of Flight Software,

Honey Bee Robotics

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Lucinda Offer, M.S.

Executive Director

Mars Society

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Edward Gonzales

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Lead, NASA

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Kris Zacny, PhD

VP, Exploration Technology

Honey Bee Robotics

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Siddharth Pandey, PhD

Head, Centre of Excellence in Astrobiology,  Amity University

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Robert Zubrin, PhD

Founder, Mars Society

President, Pioneer Astronautics

Graduate & Postdoc Researchers

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Sara Sabry

Mechanical & Biomedical Engineer, Analog Astronaut

Region: Germany

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Fernando Ayape Alonso, MSc

Space Systems, Surface Technology and Deployment

Region: Spain

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Raissa Camelo

Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning development

Region: Brazil

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Benjy Sedano

Cyanobacteria, 

astrobiology, geomicrobiology

Ambassadors

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Camilo Andres Reyes, M.S.

Region: Colombia
Skills: Engineering, Marketing, ISU Master Student in Satellite Technology

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Xavier Altimira

Region: Catalonia, Spain

 Skills: Architecture, Urbanism and Construction Design

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Raksha Kammandore Ravi, MSc

Region: Australia and India
Skills: Computer Science and Automation 

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Khushbu Patel

Region: India

 Aerospace Engineer at Relativity Space

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