Dr. Firouz Naderi is the associate director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory responsible for project formulation and strategy.

Dr. Firouz Naderi has spent most of the last decade managing NASA programs in pursuit of a most fundamental question - are we alone in the universe? The contribution our civilization makes to answer this question, he says, will be the legacy for which we will be remembered even centuries from now after transient issues of today are long forgotten.

Dr. Naderi was student at Andisheh Don Bosco College in Tehran.