Org Chart (June 2025)

By Institution

Over 15 institutions across the globe collaborate on COSI. The people working on the project are listed below, arranged by institution.

UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory

• Management (WBS1)
  • Joel Krajewski (Project Manager), Ellen Taylor (Deputy PM), Mary Ann Young, Sharmin Hossainy, Pooneh Zehtabfard, Erica Hissom
• Systems Engineering (WBS2)
  • Ellen Taylor (Project Systems Engineer), Anna Butterworth, Sasha Courtade
• Safety & Mission Assurance (WBS3)
  • Katie Pledger (Mission Assurance Manager), John Grinold, John McBride, Ruth Borrud
• Science (WBS4)
  • John Tomsick (Principal Investigator), Andreas Zoglauer (Project Scientist), Field Rogers, Robin Anthony-Petersen, Samer Al Nussirat, Nicole Rodriguez Cavero
• Payload (WBS5.1)
  • Hannah Goldberg (Payload Manager)
• Payload Systems (WBS5.2)
  • Greg Dalton, David Glaser
• Detectors (WBS5.3)
  • Alex Lowell (Instrument System Engineer), Matt Lassiter, Sharon Jelinsky
• Cryostat (WBS5.5)
  • Chris Smith, Brad Pafchek, Matt Rubly, Hilary Brunner, Van Shourt
• Electronics/Flight Software (WBS5.7 and WBS5.8)
  • Amanda Slagle, Josh Forgione, Peter Berg, Sophia Brunner, Ben Chainey, Matt Fraysse, Fernando Padilla, Bill Gies, Ian Heetderks, Rachel Hochman, Neli Montalvo, Will Rachelson, Matt Dexter
• Integration & Testing (WBS5.12)
  • Aldo Aguilar; Brent Mochizuki, Thanh Tran
• Mission Operations (WBS7)
  • John McDonald, Abhi Tripathi, Dan Cosgrove, Bryce Roberts, Mark Lewis, Brett Bonine
• Ground Systems (WBS9)
  • Tori Fae, Wing Yeung Ma
• Technicians
  • Yvette Irwin, David Gallegos, Leia McQueen, Kevin Zamani
• Student Collaboration
  • Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros, Hannah Gulick, Shunsaku Nagasawa, Chris Moeckel
• Science Enhancement Option
  • Pascal Saint-Hilaire

Naval Research Laboratory

• Front End Electronics (WBS5.4) and Anticoincidence Subsystem (WBS5.6)
  • Eric Wulf (NRL PI), Sheleen Spencer (NRL PM), Ivan Galysh, Clio Sleator (Lead Scientist – FEE), Lee Mitchell (Lead Scientist – ACS), Alena Thompson, Mary Johnson-Rambert, Thuy Dao, Nestor Arellano, Cosimos Cendos, Kwok Cheung, John Walnut, Gianluigi De Geronimo, Parshad Patel, Jake Levinrad, Alexis Lane, Patrick Daniels, Harry Armstrong, Devin Ridge, Hunter Anderer, Yandrie Oyarzabal, Eric Tiraco, Dallas Zurcher, Isabella Chavis

Goddard Space Flight Center

• Cryostat Heat Removal Subsystem (WBS5.10)
  • Albert Shih (GSFC PI), Sergey Semenov, Stuart Banks, Hak Seung Lee
• Science Pipeline and Archiving (WBS4 and WBS9)
  • Carolyn Kierans (Pipeline co-lead and Positron subgroup lead), Toni Venters (Mission Scientist) Chris Karwin, Eliza Neights (also George Washington University), Haocheng Zhang, Israel Martinez Castellanos, Maíra Dutra, Tyler Parsotan, Zorawar Wadiasingh

Northrop Grumman

• Spacecraft (WBS6)
  • Management (WBS 6.1)
    • Anjali Mehra (Spacecraft Manager), Claudia Proctor, Avelina De La Rosa, Kim Lohmann, Gary Duchnowski, Stephen Lee, Ash Madan, Michele Popaden
  • Systems Engineering (WBS 6.2)
    • Ryan Tyler, Jon Williams, Alex Morrissey
  • Safety & Mission Assurance (WBS 6.3)
    • Mike Curtis, Mike Miller, Olivia Ragland, Elizabeth Hartmann, Joe Taylor
  • Mechanical System (WBS 6.4)
    • Grant Roth, Mark Siembab, Steven Brown, Kevin Moreno
  • Thermal System (WBS 6.5)
    • Kyle Mason, Neal Ericksen
  • Power System (WBS 6.6)
    • Pawel Tlomak, Jeff Evans, Matt Mahan, Charles Zhu, Justin Argauer, Michelle Prisbe, Christopher Bryan
  • Harness (WBS 6.7)
    • Eric Hinton, Joseph Andreen
  • Command & Data Handling System (WBS 6.8)
    • Angelo Espiritu, Lynne Cannon
  • Telecommunications System (WBS 6.9)
    • Andrew Bazergui
  • Attitude Control and Determination System (WBS 6.10)
    • Jeff Perez, Caswell Bennett, Colin Driscoll
  • Flight Software (WBS 6.11)
    • Ruyi Sun, John Hueber
  • Simulation/Test Beds (WBS 6.12)
    • Holly Bayne (Flatsat), John Schappe (Simulation), Eric Meinecke, Anthony Rodriguez, Trevor Dawideit
  • Integration & Test (WBS 6.14, WBS 10)
    • Tim Wiegand (I&T Manager)
  • Manufacturing Oversight
    • Kristin Kong
• Structures (WBS5.9)
  • Rich Rynders

Space Dynamics Laboratory

• Scheduling and Earned Value Management (WBS1)
  • Deseree Wyatt
• Electronics and Payload I&T (WBS5.8 and WBS5.12)
  • Erik Syrstad, Mike Watson, James Cook (DCB), Billy Hatch (PSM), Dana Sorensen (FPGA), Camille Tischner (FPGA), Karl Hunter (Mechanical Design)

University of California, San Diego

• Science Pipeline and Calibration (WBS4)
  • Steven Boggs (Deputy PI and Calibration Lead), Jarred Roberts, Sean Pike, Sophia Haight, Aravind Valluvan, Julian Gerber, Emily Broadbent

Italian Space Agency (ASI) and INAF

• Malindi Ground Station and Science Pipeline
  • Elisabetta Cavazzuti, Andrea Bulgarelli, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Valentina Fioretti, Giancarlo Ghirlanda, Francesco Fenu, Alex Ciabattoni, Gabriele Panebianco, Lara Di Gesu, Nicolò Parmiggiani, Valerio D’Elia

Launch Planning and Implementation

• NASA Launch Services: John Calvert, Stephen Way
• SpaceX: Matt Constantino
• Launch Site: Donnie Gates

Clemson University

• Science Team
  • Dieter Hartmann, Mark Leising, Marco Ajello (Extragalactic subgroup lead), Dhruv Bal, Hugh Bates, Nikita Khatiya, Srinadh Bhavanam, Yong Sheng

Louisiana State University

• Science Team
  • Eric Burns (GRB subgroup lead), Michela Negro, Aaron Trigg, Catherine Deibel, David Palmore

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab

• Germanium Detectors (WBS5.3)
  • Joanna Szornel, Nowzesh Hasan, Victor Negut, Adan Esparza

JMU/Würzburg and JGU/Mainz, Germany

• Science Team and Science Pipeline
  • Thomas Siegert (Nucleosynthesis subgroup lead), Uwe Oberlack, Hiroki Yoneda, Jan Lommler, Laura Eisenberger, Saruabh Mittal, Savitri Gallego, Pascal Janowski, Haoyu “Jack” Xie

IRAP, France

• Science Team and ACS consulting
  • Pierre Jean, Peter von Ballmoos, Julien Malzac (Galactic subgroup lead), Jürgen Knödlseder

Kavli IPMU and Nagoya University, Japan

• Science Team and Student Collaboration
  • Tadayuki Takahashi (Dark Matter subgroup lead), Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Shigeki Matsumoto, Tom Melia, Aya Bamba, Keigo Okuma, Yu Watanabe

NTHU, Taiwan

• Science Team
  • Hsiang-Kuang Chang, Chien-You “Jason” Huang, Kaustubha Sen, Koothodil Abhijith “Abhi” Augustine

Science Team Members at Other Institutions

• Alan Marscher, Argen Detoito, Ben Safdi, Chris Fryer, Hadar Lazar, Hamta Farrokhi, Henric Krawczynski, Igor Moskalenko, Jacob Smith, Krishna Vedula, Kun Hu, Lea Marcotulli, Peter Veres, Tiffany Lewis, Chris Done, Francesca Calore, Haoyu “Jack” Xie, Hester Schutte, Ivan Agudo, Jorge Otero Santos, Katarzyna Nowak, Lente Dreyer, Maria Ravasio, Markus Ackermann, Markus Böttcher, Martin Krause, Pascal Serpico, Sara Buson, Svetlana Jorstad, Che-Yen “Jimmy” Chu

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