The BHEX Team

  • Michael Johnson

    Principal Investigator

  • Kari Haworth

    Deputy Principal Investigator

  • Janice Houston

    Instrument Systems Engineer

  • Dan Marrone

    Instrument Scientist

  • Alex Lupsasca

    Project Scientist

  • Peter Galison

    Science Team Lead

  • John Mather

    Science Advisor

  • Rebecca Baturin

    Instrument Project Manager

  • Sara Issaoun

    Science Operations Lead

  • Kazu Akiyama

    BHEX-Japan Lead

  • T. K. Sridharan

    Antenna Lead

  • Jade Wang

    Laser Communications Lead

  • Ed Tong

    Receivers Lead

  • Paul Grimes

    Cryogenics co-Lead

  • Hannah Rana

    Cryogenics co-Lead

  • Ranjani Srinivasan

    Data Processing Lead

  • Laura Sinclair

    Frequency Reference Lead

  • Daniel Palumbo

    Simulations Lead

  • Mareki Honma

    BHEX-Japan Project Manager

The BHEX mission concept has been developed through a series of studies since 2019, with contributions from many additional scientists and engineers worldwide including:

Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and the Harvard Black Hole Initiative

  • Lindy Blackburn

  • Dominic Chang

  • Peter Cheimets

  • Koushik Chatterjee

  • Shep Doeleman

  • Mark Freeman

  • Mina Himwich

  • Jan Kansky

  • Prashant Kocherlakota

  • Vanessa Marquez

  • Gary Melnick

  • Ramesh Narayan

  • Iniyan Natarajan

  • Daniel Palumbo

  • Nimesh Patel

  • Dominic Pesce

  • Sasha Plavin

  • Angelo Ricarte

  • Elliot Richards

  • Freek Roelofs

  • Andy Strominger

  • Paul Tiede

  • David Wilner

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

  • Edgar R. Canavan

  • Michael DiPirro

  • Tom Essinger-Hileman

  • Ronald Gamble

  • Demosthenes Kazanas

  • Mark Kimball

  • Peter Kurczynski

  • Robert Earl Lin Lafon

  • Scott Noble

  • Eric J Palmer

  • Eliad Peretz

  • Leonid Petrov

  • Mainak Singha

  • Guan Yang

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Bryan Bilyeu

  • Don Boroson

  • David Caplan

  • Jeff Mendenhall

  • Dan Murphy

  • Kat Riesing

  • Bryan Robinson

  • Curt Schieler

  • Katia Shtyrkova

  • Mark Silver

MIT Haystack Observatory

  • Michael Hecht

  • Jens Kauffmann

  • Lenny Paritsky

  • Thushara G.S. Pillai

  • Ganesh Rajagopalan

National Radio Astronomy Observatory

  • Bill Shillue

  • TK Sridharan

  • Robert Lehmensiek

University of Arizona and Steward Observatory

  • Chi-Kwan Chan

  • Sam Gralla

Caltech/Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  • Eric Burt

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  • Charles Gammie

Princeton University / IAS

  • Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño

  • Andrew Chael

  • Zachary Gelles

  • Eliot Quataert

  • George Wong

UC Santa Barbara

  • Joseph Farah

Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC)

  • José L. Gómez

Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC

  • Leonid Gurvits

Boston University

  • Svetlana Jorstad

  • Alan Marscher

Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy

  • Yuri Kovalev

  • Maciek Wielgus