Eve M Vavagiakis

Dr. Eve M. Vavagiakis is a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University. A childhood space enthusiast, she now works in experimental cosmology as a part of the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, CCAT-prime, CMB-S4, and Simons Observatory collaborations to build instrumentation and study the oldest light in the universe. She also codirects the high-energy physics blog ParticleBites and is the author of the first title in the Meet the Universe series, I'm a Neutrino. Eve M. Vavagiakis lives in upstate New York.

Jessica Lanan is an award-winning author, illustrator, and painter. She is the illustrator of The Lost Package by Richard Ho and Just Right: Searching for the Goldilocks Planet by Curtis Manley. Her author-illustrator debut, The Fisherman and the Whale, was awarded the 2020 Bull-Bransom Award for wildlife art. Jessica Lanan aims to help young readers discover the beauty and diversity of their world by creating picture books that are inspiring, accessible, and memorable. She lives in Boulder, Colorado.