SPHEREx Science Team

  • Current members (November 2025)
Name Institution Responsibility

Joe Adamo

UA

Cosmology 

Rachel Akeson

Caltech/IPAC

IPAC Lead

Matt Ashby

CfA

Interstellar ices pipeline and science; Photometric calibration

Yoonsoo Bach

KASI

Solar system objects

Lindsey Bleem

ANL

Galaxy clusters

Jamie Bock

Caltech

Principal Investigator

Sean Bruton

Caltech

Cosmology analysis

Sean Bryan

ASU

Survey design team co-lead

Ye Cao

UCI

EBL

Tzu-Ching Chang

JPL/Caltech

EBL mapping; Intensity mapping lead

Shuang-Shuang Chen

Caltech

EBL

Yun-Ting Cheng

Caltech

Cosmology

Jamie Cheshire

Caltech

Cosmology

Yi-Kuan Chiang

ASIAA

Cosmology, redshift measurement validation

Jatlin Chopra

UCI

EBL

Carlos Contreras

SNU

Ices investigation

Asantha Cooray

UCI

Galaxy formation L4 lead

Brendan Crill 

JPL/Caltech

Pipeline architect

Ari Cukierman

Caltech

EBL

Olivier Doré

JPL/Caltech

Project scientist; Inflationary cosmology L4 lead

Darren Dowell

JPL

System scientist

Gregory Dubois-Felsmann

Caltech/IPAC

IPAC Pipeline systems designer

Tim Eifler

UA

Cosmology analysis

Spencer Everett

Caltech

Cosmology analysis

Andreas Faisst

Caltech/IPAC

IPAC Pipeline Scientist; High redshift quasars; Dust modeling

Tamim Fatahi

Caltech/IPAC

Pipeline

Candice Fazar

RIT

EBL pipeline

Richard Feder

Caltech

Cosmology investigation, redshift measurement

Henry Gebhardt

Caltech

Cosmology analysis

Utkarsh Giri

Caltech

Cosmology analysis

Tatiana Goldina

Caltech/IPAC

Pipeline developer

Salman Habib

ANL

Galaxy catalog simulations

Katrim Heitman

ANL

Galaxy catalog simulations

Chris Hirata

OSU

Cosmology analysis

Joseph Hora

CfA

Interstellar ices pipeline and science

Zhaoyu (Gemma) Huai

Caltech

Cosmology analysis

Howard Hui

Caltech

Instrument characterization and pipeline

Fynn Janssen

Caltech

Cosmology

Woong-Seob Jeong

KASI

KASI Principal Investigator

Young-Soo Jo

KASI

KASI

Miju Kang

KASI

Ices investigation

Jaeyeong Kim

KASI

Ices investigation

Young-Jung Kim

SNU

AGN

Yongjung Kim

SJU/KASI

AGN

Davy Kirkpatrick

Caltech/IPAC

Brown dwarfs

Phil Korngut

Caltech

Instrument scientist

Elisabeth Krause

UA

Cosmology analysis

BoMee Lee

KASI

Cosmology, redshift measurement

Ho-Gyu Lee

KASI

Ices investigation

Jae-Joon Lee

KASI

Ices investigation

Jeong-Eun Lee

SNU

Ices investigation

Thomas Li

UCI

EBL

Carey Lisse

JHU/APL

Solar system science

Dan Masters

Caltech/IPAC

Cosmology, redshift measurement, IPAC pipeline scientist

Phil Mauskopf

ASU

Survey planning; Galaxy clusters

Gary Melnick

CfA

Interstellar Ices L4 lead

Mary Minasyan

Caltech

EBL

Jordan Mirocha

JPL

EBL modeling 

Annie Moore

UA

Power spectrum modeling 

Giulia Murgia

Caltech

EBL

Christina Nelson

Caltech/IPAC

Pipeline

Chi Nguyen

Caltech

Instrument characterization

Hien Nguyen

JPL

Instrument characterization

Jinyoung Noh

SNU

AGN

Karin Öberg

CfA

Ice science interpretation

Steve Padin

Caltech

Optical and Electrical Systems Manager 

Roberta Paladini

Caltech/IPAC

IPAC Pipeline scientist; Interstellar ices; ISM

Jeonghyun Pyo

KASI

Ices investigation

Nesar Ramachandra

ANL

Cosmology simulations

Zafar Rustamkulov

Caltech/IPAC

Stellar legacy catalog

Roger Smith

Caltech

H2RG implementation

Yong-Seon Song

KASI

Cosmology analysis

Harry Teplitz

Caltech/IPAC

IPAC data archive lead

Volker Tolls

CfA

Interstellar Ices pipeline and science

Gabriela Torrini

Caltech/IPAC

Pipeline

Phani Velicheti

Caltech/IPAC

Pipeline

Pao-Yu Wang

ASU

Survey, Cosmology

Mike Werner 

JPL

Legacy survey science; Ice analysis

Roger Windhorst

ASU

JWST synergy

Soung-Chul Yang

KASI

Ices investigation

Yujin Yang

KASI

Ices science; Reference catalog lead

Mike Zemcov

RIT

Data analysis pipeline; EBL science

 

 

  • Past members (partial list)
Name Institution Contribution

Joyce Byun

UA

Bispectrum modeling

Peter Capak

Caltech/IPAC

Redshift pipeline and astronomical synergies

Chang Feng

UCI

EBL modeling

Roland de Putter

Caltech/JPL

Cosmology forecasting

Yan Gong

UCI

EBL modeling

Milad Pourrahmani

Caltech/IPAC

Survey design, pipeline

Hooshang Nayyeri

UCI

EBL modeling and systematics