Dr. Stefanie Milam is a Planetary Scientist in the Astrochemistry Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland and serves as the James Webb Space Telescope Project Scientist for Policy and Science Community.

She is an expert in spectroscopy, observations, and laboratory astrophysics of star formation regions, protoplanetary disks, and small bodies in the solar system (namely comets and interstellar objects). Milam maintains a renowned observational program and research group employing telescopes in and out of this world to routinely observe and characterize comets and interstellar objects as part of an international collaboration. She is interested in learning how these icy relics created during planet formation tell us what ingredients were present during that period and how that influenced the diverse population of planets in our solar system and perhaps even habitability on Earth.