#  Affiliates 

 



*Affiliated professionals who offer useful expertise and input to the Research Team. Includes affiliated scientists and communicators.*



 

**Rudolf Baer**  
Institute of Astronomy, ETHZ

**Sondra Castignetti**  
Operations Assistant, Harvard University

**Stefan Doerr**  
CEO and Co-Founder, NODE Robotics

**Lue Elizondo**  
Former Head of AATIP

**Mark Elowitz, Ph.D.**  
Astrophysicist  
Member of the American Astronomical Society and IAU

**Benji Laszlo Fields**  
Visiting Scholar, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science  
B.A., Physics and Astronomy

**Stephen C. Finley, Ph.D.**  
Associate Professor, Louisiana State University

**Tim Gallaudet, Ph.D.**  
CEO, Ocean STL Consulting, LLC

**Tennyson George**   
B.S. Biology - The University of Utah  
DevSecOps Engineer

**Alex Gersznowicz**   
Member, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Board

**Jacob Haqq-Misra, Ph.D.**  
Astrophysicist, Blue Marble Space Institute of Science

**Ben Horvath**  
Data analyst

**Teddy Jones**  
Entrepreneur  
BA Biological Anthropology, Harvard University  
MBA University of Virginia

**David Julian**  
Google Education

**Dustin Kaban**  
Software Engineer in the Games Industry

**Yoav Kfir**  
CEO, Var Management

**Kevin Knuth, Ph.D.**  
Professor of Physics, University of Albany

**Lily Kuan**  
Technical Assistant and Art Consultant

**Dominic Lavoie**  
Audio Engineer

**Sarah Little, Ph.D.**  
Writer, Ph.D. from MIT/Woods Hole Geophysics

**Daniel Llussà**  
Art and visual effects

**Ofrit Liviatan, Ph.D.**   
Lecturer, Government Department, Harvard University

**Robert Lundstrom, M.D**

**Taras W. Matla**  
Director, University of Maryland Art Gallery

**Chris Mellon**  
Private Equity Investor

**Nick Pope**  
Former civil servant, UK

**Ian Porritt**  
Pattern Analysis Specialist, B.B.S Massey University

**Robert Powell**  
Executive Board Member, Scientific Coalition for UAP Studies

**Chris Rutkowski, BSc, MEd**  
Science writer, UAP Data Assembly

**Adnan Sen**  
Founder, Sen Properties

**Erin Sharoni, MBE**  
Teaching Fellow, Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics Associate Fellow, Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, University of Oxford

**Michael Shermer, Ph.D.**  
Publisher Skeptic magazine  
Presidential Fellow, Chapman University

**Foteini Vervelidou, Ph.D.**  
Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Science, MIT

**Milton Villarroel**  
Slooh Space Ambassador, Global Schools Program Advocate

**Tzvi Weitzner**  
CSO & co-founder, timbr.ai

**Abby White**  
B.A. Mathematics and Astronomy '22, Wellesley College

**Frank White**  
Author, *The SETI Factor*