Aware of the demands and far-sightedness that this research requires, we have assembled a team based on academic excellence and experience. Thus, we have the doctors in Materials Sciences María Amparo Borrell Tomás and Rut Benavente Martínez, doctor in Geological Sciences and expert in Meteorites, Planetary Geology and Astrobiology Jesús Martínez Frías, geologist and predoctoral researcher Enrique Martínez Martín, plastic artist specialized in ceramics Ana Felipe Royo, doctor in Advanced Construction Techniques and specialist professor in acoustics Javier Tejado Mata, doctor in Chemical Sciences and research professor at the Institute of Ceramics and Glass of the CSIC Rodrigo Moreno Botella, and musician Pedro Barceló Cartagena. Coordinating the development of the research is the musical instrument designer Carlos Traginer Gómez.

Our regolith simulant provider is Exolith Lab, a collaborating entity of the European Space Agency and NASA.

The neurologist Oliver Sacks used to say that we are homo musicalis. Music is an intrinsic part of our identity as a species. Therefore, in the same way the Greek muse Hypate personified the highest string of Apollo’s lyre, god of music, the HYPATE PROJECT wants to incarnate the human yearning to discover the music that awaits dormant anywhere in the universe.