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.

Ashcraft is an observational astrophysicist who studies extragalactic deep fields. She is helping to develop and teach astronomy courses for ASU's new online Astronomy and Planetary Sciences degree.

Danny Jacobs is an interdisciplinary scientist with expertise in low frequency radio cosmology and development of novel instruments.

Evgenya Shkolnik is a professor of astrophysics at the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. She is an expert on stars, exoplanets, and the potential habitability of exoplanetary systems.

Knierman teaches astronomy and studies star formation in the tidal tails of merging galaxies using multiwavelength observations.

Baumgart is a professor of physics with an interest in state of the art field theory, dark matter annihilation.