Team MOTHRA

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A Team of
Cosmic Experts

We are a scientific research organization operating as a deep tech startup. Our award-winning team has decades of experience building and using the most powerful telescopes on earth and in space.

Mothra is built and owned by Dragonfly FRO LLC, a non-profit organization based in the United States. Dragonfly FRO is part of the Convergent Research family of Focused Research Organizations. Construction and operation of MOTHRA is funded by the generous philanthropy of Alex Gerko.

Roberto Abraham

Co-Founder and Co-CEO (D. Phil, Oxford)

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Pieter van Dokkum

Co-Founder and Co-CEO (Ph.D., Groningen)

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Deborah Lokhorst

Project Director (Ph.D., Toronto)

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Imad Pasha

Head of Software (Ph.D., Yale)

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Will Bowman

Head of Telescope Operations (Ph.D., Penn State)

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Seery Chen

Instrumentation Lead (Ph.D., Toronto)

Steven Janssens

Data Processing and Database Development Lead (Ph.D., Toronto)

Carter Rhea

Algorithmic Software Development Lead (Ph.D., Montreal)

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Lisa Sloan

Project Administrator (B.Sc., Calgary)