Desch is a professor of astrophysics in the School of Earth and Space Exploration. His research is in star and planet formation, meteoritics, exoplanets, and astrobiology.

Wadhwa is an isotope cosmochemist interested in the time scales and processes involved in the formation and evolution of the Solar System. She serves as the Director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration.

Schrader's research primarily concerns the study of primitive meteorites that remain relatively unaltered since their formation in the early Solar System.

Elkins-Tanton is the vice president of the Interplanetary Initiative at ASU and Principal Investigator of the NASA Psyche mission. She received her doctorate from MIT in 2002.

Serla is a PhD Candidate working with Dr. Phil Christensen. His current research is focused on mid-latitude ice rheology on Mars, and thermal infrared spectroscopy in far-IR.