The following is a list of women who are the principal investigators (PIs), project scientists (PSs) or directors (Dirs) of astronomical instruments, missions or observatories.
Name Mission/instrument or observatory Position Allwood, Abigail Perseverance/PIXL PIAnderson, TeresaJodrell Bank ObservatoryDirs Bernstein, Rebecca Giant Magellan Telescope PS Baglin, Annie CoRoT PI Batalha, Natalie Kepler Space Telescope DPI, PS Blaney, Diana Europa Clipper/MISE PI Blum, Lauren GTOSat PI Branduardi-Raymont, Graziella SMILE PI (Eur)Bright, StaceyJWSTDeputy PS (STScI) Bunce, Emma BepiColombo/MIXS PI Cesarsky, Catherine ISO/ISOCAM PI Ciarletti, Valérie Rosalind Franklin/WISDOM PI Cohen, Christina IMAP/HIT Co-I Parker Solar Probe/ISʘIS Deputy PI STEREO/IMPACT Co-I ACE/CRIS PI ACE/SIS PI ACE/ULEIS PI Cohen, Judith Keck/LRIS PI Keck/MAGIQ PSCurry, ShannonMAVENPI Daubar, Ingrid Justine MRO/HiRISE Deputy PI De Sanctis, Maria Cristina Rosalind Franklin/MA_MISS PI Dehant, Véronique Kazachok/LaRa PIde Laurentis, MariafeliciaEvent Horizon TelescopePS Dempsey, Jessica ASTRON Dir Dodd, Suzanne JPL's Interplanetary Network Directorate Dir Dotson, Jessie Kepler K2 PS Dougherty, Michele Cassini magnetometer, JUICE's J-MAG PI Elkins-Tanton, Lindy Psyche PI Enos, Heather OSIRIS-REx Deputy PI Faber, Sandra Keck/DEIMOS PI Ferrarese, Laura Gemini Observatory Dir Fischer, Debra Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory / CHIRON co-PIMolėtai Astronomical Observatory / Vilnius University Echelle Spectrograph co-PI Lowell Discovery Telescope / EXPRES co-PI Fox, Nicola (Nicky) Parker Solar Probe PS (US) Freedman, Wendy Giant Magellan Telescope Dir (former) Froning, Cynthia Hubble Space Telescope/Cosmic Origins Spectrograph PS Galvin, Toni STEREO/PLASTIC PIGarcia Marin, MacarenaJWSTPS (STScI) Glesener, Lindsay FOXSI Sounding Rocket-3 PI Hamden, Erika Aspera Deputy-PI Hammel, Heidi Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Dir (Executive VP) Harra, Louise Solar Orbiter/EUI co-PI Harrison, Fiona NuSTAR PI Heras, Ana PLATO ESA PS Isaak, Kate CHEOPS PS Jaeggli, Sarah Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope/DL-NIRSP Instrument scientist Kasliwal, Mansi GROWTH PIPalomar Gattini-IRco-PIWINTERco-PI Johnson, Jennifer Milky Way Mapper (Survey in Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V) PI Johnston-Hollitt, Melanie Murchison Widefield Array Dir (former) Kollmeier, Juna Sloan Digital Sky Survey-V Director Kucera, Therese (Terry) STEREO PS Lagrange, Anne-Marie Very Large Telescope/NAOS PS Le, Guan Geotail PS (US) Lepri, Susan Solar Orbiter/Heavy Ion Sensor (HIS) PI Lotz, Jennifer Gemini Observatory (Director of the Space Telescope Science Institute from Feb 2024) Dir Lu, Jessica Keck All-Sky Precision Adaptive Optics (KAPA) PSLuetzgendorf, NoraLISA ESA PS Luhmann, Janet STEREO/IMPACT PI Mainzer, Amy NEOWISE PI Marcum, Pamela SOFIA PSMarshall, JenniferMaunaKea Spectroscopic ExplorerPS Matthews, SarahHinode/Extreme-Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS) PI (UK) Max, Claire Keck/Next Gen AO PS McEnery, Julie Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope PS Mundell, Carole RINGO2 Director of Science, European Space Agency (from 2023) PI O'Neill, Karen Green Bank Telescope Dir Oppenheimer, Rebecca Palomar Observatory/JHU Adaptive Optics Coronagraph PS Hale Telescope/Palomar Adaptive Optics System, PALAO PS 3.67 m Advanced Electro Optical System Telescope/The Lyot Project PI Gemini South Telescope/Gemini Planet Imager, GPI/GPIES PI Hale Telescope/Project 1640, P1640 PI Hale Telescope/Palomar Advanced Radial Velocity Instrument, PARVI PI Pelló, Roser ELT/MOSAIC PI Porco, Carolyn Cassini Imaging Science Subsystem PI Ramsay, Suzanne ELT ELT Instrumentation Project Manager (ESO) Rangwala, Naseem Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy PS Rank-Lueftinger, Theresa ARIEL ESA PS Rauer, Heike PLATO PI Raymond, Carol Europa Clipper/ICEMAG (cancelled) PI Reeves, Kathy Hinode/X-ray Telescope (XRT) PS (US)Rigby, JaneJWSTPS (NASA) Rieke, Marcia Hubble Space Telescope/NICMOS Deputy PI JWST/NIRCam PI Roy, Arpita Keck/Keck Planet Finder PSRudie, GwenMIRMOSPS Savage, Sabrina Hinode PS (US) Seager, Sara ASTERIA PI Schaefer, Gail CHARA Array Dir Seetha, Somasundaram Astrosat PI Shkolnik, Evgenya SPARCS PI Spilker, Linda Cassini PS Voyager program PS Staggs, Suzanne Advanced ACTpol PI Stofan, Ellen Titan Mare Explorer PI Straume-Lindner, Anne Grete EnVision ESA PS Swank, Jean RXTE PS RXTE/PCA PI Tasca, Lidia ELT/MOSAIC PI Tinetti, Giovanna ARIEL PI Turtle, Elizabeth Europa Clipper/EIS PI Dragonfly PI Tuttle, Sarah Hobby-Eberly Telescope/LRS PS HETDEX/VIRUS Instrument Scientist Vandaele, Ann Carine ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter/NOMAD PI Wilkes, Belinda Chandra X-ray Center Dir Winebarger, Amy Hi-C sounding rocket (3rd launch) PI Wiseman, Jennifer Hubble Space Telescope SPS Wright, Gillian JWST/MIRI PI (Eur) Wright, Shelley TMT/IRIS PS Keck/Liger PI Zuber, Maria GRAIL PI
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