About Us

Dr. Jacob Haqq Misra is a research scientist and astrobiologist at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science. His research focuses on understanding the conditions that allow life to survive on Earth and the possibility of detecting signatures of biology or technology on other planets. He also studies the possible futures of life in the solar system and is the author of the book Sovereign Mars.

Dr. George Profitiliotis is a research scientist and a futures studies expert at the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science. He has worked extensively in the fields of strategic foresight, futures literacy, and futures studies, and he is particularly interested in applying techniques from those fields to the domains of anticipatory governance and anticipatory ethics of advanced technoscience.