The BHEX Team
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Michael Johnson
Principal Investigator
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Kari Haworth
Deputy Principal Investigator
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Janice Houston
Instrument Systems Engineer
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Dan Marrone
Instrument Scientist
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Alex Lupsasca
Project Scientist
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Peter Galison
Science Team Lead
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John Mather
Science Advisor
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Rebecca Baturin
Instrument Project Manager
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Sara Issaoun
Science Operations Lead
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Kazu Akiyama
BHEX-Japan Lead
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T. K. Sridharan
Antenna Lead
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Jade Wang
Laser Communications Lead
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Ed Tong
Receivers Lead
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Paul Grimes
Cryogenics co-Lead
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Hannah Rana
Cryogenics co-Lead
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Ranjani Srinivasan
Data Processing co-Lead
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Jonathan Weintroub
Data Processing co-Lead
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Laura Sinclair
Frequency Reference co-Lead
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Daniel Palumbo
Simulations Lead
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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