Stefanie Milam

Dr. Stefanie Milam is a Planetary Scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and serves as the James Webb Space Telescope Deputy Project Scientist for Planetary Science. Milam is from Houston, Texas, where she first fell in love is Astronomy and NASA through multiple visits to NASA's Johnson Space Center. She obtained her B.S. in Chemistry from Kansas Wesleyan University in Salina, Kansas in 2002, and completed her Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona in 2007. She then pursued a postdoctoral position at NASA Ames Research Center to conduct laboratory studies of interstellar ice analogs with applications to astrobiology. Milam first started at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in 2010 as a research scientist.