The principal investigator of Foundations of Complex Life — the NASA Astrobiology Institute MIT team — is Roger Summons.

The co-investigators are Eric Alm, Kristin Bergmann, Tanja Bosak, Derek Briggs, Phoebe Cohen, Douglas Erwin, Greg Fournier, Katherine Freeman, John Grotzinger, Colleen Hansel, John Higgins, David Jacobs, David Johnston, Andrew Knoll, Marc LaFlamme, Francis Macdonald, David McGee, Ralph Milliken, Carol Oliver, Shuhei Ono, Ann Pearson, Kevin Peterson, Sara Pruss, Dan Rothman, Dimitar Sasselov, Erik Sperling, Ken Stedman, Dawn Sumner, Malcolm Walter, Martin Van Kranendonk, Scott Wankel, Benjamin Weiss, and Paula Welander.

Photo © Winston Macdonald, 2014