ROBERTO MAIOLINO - University of Cambridge, UK; JWST/NIRSpec team

Roberto Maiolino is professor of Experimental Astrophysics at the Department of Physics and at the Kavli Institute for Cosmology of the University of Cambridge. He is also Honorary Professor at University College London and Fellow of the Royal Society. He studies the formation, evolution and transformation of galaxies and black holes across the cosmic epochs, by using observations collected at some of the largest ground-based and space telescopes. He has been playing a leading role in several projects, including the James Webb Space Telescope, the MOONS spectrograph for the Very Large Telescope, and the ANDES spectrograph for the Extremely Large Telescope.

Roberto Maiolino is an alumnus of the 1993 VOSS.

ALMUDENA ALONSO HERRERO - Centro de Astrobiología, ES; JWST/MIRI team

Almudena Alonso Herrero is a senior staff scientist at the National Research Council in Spain and member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences. She is an expert in star forming and active galaxies. Since 2003, she has been Spanish co-investigator in the JWST-MIRI European Consortium and currently coordinates the activities of the nearby galaxy team. She belonged to the science teams of the NICMOS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope, MIPS on the Spitzer Space Telescope, and CanariCam on the Gran Telescopio Canarias. She is one of the founders of the international GATOS collaboration, which has the overarching goal of understanding how the growth of supermassive black holes is coupled to the innermost parts of their host galaxies.

Almudena Alonso Herrero is an alumna of the 1993 VOSS.

MARIA DROZDOVSKAYA - Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos und Weltstrahlungszentrum - PMOD/WRC, CH

Maria Drozdovskaya is a molecular astrophysicist with a focus on how stars and planets form from prestellar cores to protostars and protoplanetary disks. She is particularly interested in the emergence of chemical complexity under interstellar physical conditions and how it connects to our Solar System, with an emphasis on comets. She is a Science Collaborator of the JWST ERS “Ice Age” team and PI and co-I of JWST observing programs investigating the chemical composition of natal regions of stars and planets. Her other key expertise is radio astronomy; and she is a co-PI of the “COMPASS” ALMA Large Program. Prior to being a Holcim Foundation Fellow at the Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos und Weltstrahlungszentrum (PMOD/WRC), she spent 7 years at the Center for Space and Habitability (CSH) at Universität Bern: initially, as a CSH and IAU Gruber Foundation Fellow and subsequently, as an awardee of the SNSF Ambizione Grant. She obtained her PhD in October 2016 at Universiteit Leiden supported by the Huygens Fellowship.

THOMAS GREENE - NASA Ames Research Center, US; JWST/NIRCam and MIRI team

Thomas (Tom) Greene is an Astrophysicist at NASA’s Ames Research Center. His research interests include observational studies of young stars and exoplanets as well as developing astronomical observatories and instrumentation. Greene was a co-investigator on the JWST NIRCam and MIRI JWST instruments and is now leading the JWST MANATEE guaranteed time observing program to characterize exoplanet atmospheres. While at NASA Ames he has served as the Director of the Ames Center for Exoplanet Studies, Project Scientist of the SOFIA mission, and Chief of the Astrophysics Branch. Before joining NASA, he was a staff scientist at the Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, on the University of Hawaii faculty, and on the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility staff. Greene received a Ph.D. in astronomy from the University of Arizona.