Parag A. Vaishampayan

Parag Vaishampayan received his PhD in microbiology from University of Pune, India in 2005. He has been with JPL for 9 years. He has applied his scientific expertise, bioinformatics knowledge and research experience over 15 years to decipher the microbial ecology of diverse and extreme environmental niches encompassing spacecraft assembly clean rooms, ocean, stratospheric air samples, high altitude caves, hydrothermal vents and human gut to name few. He has worked on several NASA missions supporting planetary protection implementation and research activities.