The PhysPAG Chair and the PhysPAG Executive Committee (EC) are appointed members of the PhysPAG whose responsibilities include organizing meetings and collecting and summarizing community input with subsequent reporting to the Astrophysics Division Director.
| Term | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Institution | Expertise | Start | End |
| Grant Tremblay (Chair Emeritus) | Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory | XR SIG | Dec 2019 | Dec 2023 |
| Justin Finke (Chair) | Naval Research Laboratory | GR SIG | Dec 2020 | Dec 2023 |
| Vera Gluscevic | Univ. of Southern California | CoS SIG | Dec 2020 | Dec 2023 |
| Andrew Romero-Wolf | JPL | CR SIG | Dec 2020 | Dec 2023 |
| David Pooley | Trinity University | XR SIG | Dec 2021 | Dec 2024 |
| Athina Meli (Vice Chair) | North Carolina A&T | CR SIG | Dec 2021 | Dec 2024 |
| Eric Burns | Louisiana State University | GR SIG | Dec 2021 | Dec 2024 |
| Kristin Madsen | NASA/GSFC | XR SIG | Dec 2021 | Dec 2024 |
| Chiara Mingarelli | Univ. of Connecticut | GW SIG | Feb 2023 | Dec 2025 |
| Chien-Ting Chen | USRA/MSFC | XR SIG | Feb 2023 | Dec 2025 |
| Alessandra Corsi | Texas Tech | GW SIG | Feb 2023 | Dec 2025 |
| Roger O’Brient | JPL | IP SIG | Feb 2023 | Dec 2025 |
| Rebekah Hounsell | UMBC/GSFC | CoS SIG | Feb 2023 | Dec 2025 |
| Manel Errando | Washington U. St. Louis | GR SIG | Feb 2023 | Dec 2025 |
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