James Wray, Ph.D.

James Wray is a planetary scientist and associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He currently chairs the Planetary Geology Division of the Geological Society of America and is a co-investigator or collaborator on five active Mars mission science teams. Originally trained in astrophysics at Princeton and Cornell, his research now focuses on planetary surface compositions as records of the current and past environmental conditions on other worlds.