Mary Voytek

Mary Voytek
2004
Director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Astrobiology Program
Incumbent
Assumed office
September 15, 2008
PresidentBarack Obama
Donald Trump
Websiteastrobiology.nasa.gov/nai/directory/voytek-mary/
Alma mater
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUnited States Geological Survey
NASA
ThesisRelative abundance and species diversity of autotrophic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in aquatic systems (1996)
Doctoral advisorBess Ward

Dr. Mary A. Voytek is the director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Astrobiology Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.[1][2] In 2015, Voytek formed Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS), a systems science initiative by NASA, to search for life on exoplanets.[3][4] Voytek came to NASA from the U.S. Geological Survey in Reston, VA, where she headed the USGS Microbiology and Molecular Ecology Laboratory from 1998 to 2009.[5][6]

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  2. ^ Daniella Scalice: Astrobiology – Life in the Universe – Mary Voytek – Biography Archived 2011-11-28 at the Wayback Machine. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, November 11, 2011, retrieved November 12, 2011
  3. ^ Loff, Sarah (April 21, 2015). "NASA’s NExSS Coalition to Lead Search for Life on Distant Worlds." NASA. Retrieved April 22, 2015.
  4. ^ Tollefson, Jeff (2015). "Climate scientists join search for alien Earths". Nature. 520 (7548): 420. Bibcode:2015Natur.520..420T. doi:10.1038/520420a. PMID 25903606.
  5. ^ "Mary Voytek LinkedIn Profile". Retrieved July 27, 2018.
  6. ^ "AGU Leadership Profile". Archived from the original on March 22, 2019. Retrieved July 27, 2018.