Miles Timpe
Early-Career Fellow 2025–2026

Miles Timpe (born 1988 in Seattle, US) is an astrobiologist and space sustainability researcher. His work spans both extrasolar and solar system domains. Beyond our solar system, he investigates the origin and evolution of exoplanets and exomoons. Within the solar system, his focus lies on sustainable spaceflight and environmental stewardship beyond Earth, particularly in the context of lunar missions.

Miles earned his PhD from the University of Zurich (CH) in 2020. His doctoral research examined giant impacts during planetary formation, with extensive simulation campaigns conducted at the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS). As a postdoctoral researcher, he advanced our understanding of the giant impact hypothesis for the Moon's origin.

Before joining the Collegium, Miles was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Astrophysics at the University of Zurich. He is a long-time member of the Academic Spaceflight Initiative of Switzerland (ARIS), where he contributed to both the PICCARD rocket and the Swiss Artificial Gravity Experiment (SAGE) satellite.