#  Advisory Boards 

 



The Galileo Project is honored to benefit from the expertise and insights of two external advisory boards.



 

 ### Scientific Advisory Board

*The Scientific Advisory Board provides top-level scientific advice to the Research Team.*

**Charles Alcock**

- Director, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian
- Donald Menzel Professor of Astrophysics, Harvard University

**Sagi Ben Ami**

- Assistant Professor (senior researcher), Weizmann Institute of Science
- Head of the WIS Instrumentation Group
- PI on G-CLEF Extreme R for the Giant Magellan Telescope

**Paul C. W. Davies**

- Regents' Professor and Professor of Physics, Arizona State University (ASU)
- Director, Beyond Center for Convergence of Physical Science and Cancer Biology, ASU

**Ferki Ferati**

- President, The Jefferson Educational Society of Erie
- Ed.D. in Social and Comparative Analysis, University of Pittsburgh
- Masters in Public Administration, Gannon University

**Seth Shostak**

- Senior Astronomer, SETI Institute
- Host of the SETI Institute weekly science radio show, "Big Picture Science"
- Author of three trade books on SETI and more than 600 popular articles on science

**Rizwan Virk**

- Venture capitalist
- Founder of Play Labs @ MIT
- Author of “The Simulation Hypothesis”

**Stephen Wolfram**

- Founder and CEO of Wolfram Research
- Creator of Mathematica, Wolfram|Alpha
- Originator of Wolfram Physics Project

**Dimitar Sasselov**

- Phillips Professor of Astronomy
- Director, Origins of Life Initiative
- Senior Advisor in the Sciences for Advanced Study



 

 ### Philanthropic Advisory Board

*The Philanthropic Advisory Board provides philanthropic advice to The Galileo Project.*

**Brinson Foundation**

\*Privately funded philanthropic organization

**Charles Hoskinson**

\* Technology Entrepreneur, CEO and Founder of IOHK

**Eugene Jhong**

- Undergraduate (AB) and law degree (JD) from Harvard University
- MS in Computer Science, Stanford University

**Vinny Jain**

**Teddy Jones**

- Entrepreneur, Undergraduate (AB) and law degree (JD) from Harvard University
- BA Biological Anthropology, Harvard University; MBA University of Virginia

**Dr. Eric Keto**

**\*Member, Galileo Project Research Team**

**Laukien Science Foundation**

**Joerg Laukien**

**William A. Linton**

- Founder, Chair and CEO of Promega Corporation
- Executive Director of Usona Institute

**Adnan Sen**