Our Advisors
Our advisors lend their expertise toward navigating the Star Goddesses project on a successful trajectory.
Lika Guhathakurta
Dr. Guhathakurta is an astrophysicist and Lead Program Scientist for NASA's Living With a Star which focuses on understanding and predicting solar variability and its diverse effects on Earth, human technology and astronauts in space. She chairs the International Living With a Star, a global initiative involving all space agencies to contribute toward the scientific goal of understanding space weather.
Bill Diamond
Bill Diamond is President of the SETI Institute. He has worked in applied technologies with experience in photonics and optical communications, and more than a decade in X-ray and semiconductor processing. His corporate background spans from venture-backed start-ups to Fortune100 multinationals in R&D, engineering operations, marketing, product management, and CEO positions.
Tanja Masson-Zwaan
Dr. Tanja Masson-Zwaan is Director of the International Institute of Air and Space Law at Leiden University, President Emerita of the International Institute of Space Law, and adjunct faculty of the International Space University. Tanja advises on space law and policy, arbitrates space disputes for the Dutch government, and teaches and supervises Bachelors, Masters and PhD level students.
Frank White
Frank White has authored books on topics ranging from space exploration to climate change to artificial intelligence. His best-known work, The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution, is considered to be a seminal work in space exploration, and since its first edition published in 1987, "the overview effect" is now a standard term describing spaceflight experience.
Ghina Halabi
Dr. Ghina Halabi works at the intersection of science, education and entrepreneurship. As the first person to get her PhD in astrophysics in Lebanon, Ghina wants to ensure that she’s not the last, so she founded She Speaks Science, a multilingual enterprise promoting women in STEM with storytelling and mentorships funded by Cambridge University and International Astronomical Union.
Alison Lowndes
Alison Lowndes is Senior Scientist for Global AI at Nvidia. Alison is a mature graduate in AI combining technical and theoretical computer science with her physics background and over twenty years in international project management, entrepreneurial activities and the internet. She consults on AI applications and topics, including planetary defense with NASA, ESA and the SETI Institute.