Overview | The Team – NASA's Europa Clipper

Introduction

They're united by a lofty goal – to determine whether there are places below Jupiter’s icy moon, Europa, that could support life. Europa Clipper's scientists and engineers include many stars in the field of planetary exploration. Some came from leading roles in the flyby of Pluto by NASA's New Horizons mission. Several have worked together for decades, exploring Europa and other icy moons with NASA's Cassini, Galileo, and Voyager missions.

Dozens of people stand on a stair case in front of a glass building, looking towards the camera. They are posing for a team image, with some kneeling in front. They are framed on the top left and right be trees, with a blue sky in the distance. The image was taken at JPL in Pasadena, California. — Members of the Europa Clipper mission team pose for a group photo at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in November 2022. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

We have a rare and wonderful opportunity with this mission to investigate whether Europa could be an abode for life.

We're in the service of our colleagues, our scientific community, our country, and our fellow human beings. It's a responsibility we take very seriously.

- Curt Niebur, Europa Clipper Program Scientist, NASA Washington Headquarters

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) manages the Europa Clipper mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C. The Europa Clipper mission is being developed in partnership with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), Laurel, Maryland.

Team Members

Mission Management

Project Manager: Jordan Evans, JPL
Project Scientist: Robert Pappalardo, JPL
Deputy Project Manager: Tim Larson, JPL
Assistant Project Manager: Tom Magner, APL
Deputy Project Scientist: Bonnie Buratti, JPL
Deputy Project Scientist: Haje Korth, APL
Program Scientist: Curt Niebur, NASA Headquarters (HQ)
Deputy Program Scientist: Amanda Nahm, NASA HQ
Program Executive: David Lavery, NASA HQ
Program Manager: Scott Bellamy, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center

Lead Project Support: Erin Mitchell, JPL
Project Support: Susana Thompson, JPL
Project Support: Ocean Mcintyre, JPL
Project Administrator: Madeline Russell, JPL

Engineering Team

Project System Engineer: Joseph Stehly, JPL
Deputy Project System Engineer: Gabby Garcia, JPL
Deputy Project System Engineer: Liz Johnson, JPL
Chief Engineer: Kobie Boykins, JPL
Deputy Chief Engineer: Jason Feldman, JPL

Project Business Manager: Tiffany Daleo, JPL
Science Manager: Brian Paczkowski, JPL
Deputy Science Manager: Trina Ray, JPL
Mission Assurance Manager: Linda Facto, JPL
Deputy Mission Assurance Manager: Michael Kokorowski, JPL
Mission System Manager: Josh St Vaughn, JPL
Deputy Mission System Manager: Al Cangahuala, JPL
Deputy Mission System Manager: Glen Havens, JPL
Assistant Mission System Manager:
Debarati Chattopadhyay, APL
Launch to Mars Mission Manager: Tracy Drain, JPL
Payload Manager: Kevin Clark, JPL
Lead Payload System Engineer: London Lawson, JPL
Flight System Manager: Jeff Srinivasan, JPL
Deputy Flight System Manager: Kendra Short, JPL
Deputy Flight System Manager: Tom Jedrey, JPL
Project Flight System Engineer: Carolina Barltrop, JPL
Deputy Flight System Engineer: Alek Kerzhner, JPL
Deputy Flight System Engineer: Kari Lewis, JPL
Deputy Flight System Engineer: Sofia Stachel, APL

Science Team

Project Staff Scientist: Kate Craft, APL
Project Staff Scientist: Rachel Klima, APL
Project Staff Scientist: Cynthia Phillips, JPL
Project Staff Scientist: Ingrid Daubar, JPL/Brown University
Project Staff Scientist: Sam Howell, JPL
Project Staff Scientist: Erin Leonard, JPL

Mapping Imaging Spectrometer for Europa (MISE)

Principal Investigator: Diana Blaney, JPL
Deputy Principal Investigator: Karl Hibbitts, APL

Radar for Europa Assessment and Sounding: Ocean to Near-surface (REASON)

Principal Investigator: Donald Blankenship, University of Texas Austin
Deputy Principal Investigator: Alina Moussessian, JPL

Europa Thermal Emission Imaging System (E-THEMIS)

Principal Investigator: Phil Christensen, Arizona State University
Deputy Principal Investigator: John Spencer, Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)

SUrface Dust Analyzer (SUDA)

Principal Investigator: Sascha Kempf, University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics

Europa Clipper Magnetometer (ECM)

Team Leader: Margaret Kivelson, University of Michigan
Deputy Team Leader: Xianzhe Jia, University of Michigan

Europa Clipper’s Ultraviolet Spectrograph (Europa-UVS)

Principal Investigator: Kurt Retherford, SwRI
Deputy Principal Investigator: Randy Gladstone, SwRI

Europa Imaging System (EIS)

Principal Investigator: Elizabeth Turtle, APL
Deputy Principal Investigator: Alfred McEwen, University of Arizona
Deputy Principal Investigator: Wes Patterson, APL