# Jill Tarter **Entity class:** Person **Domain:** radio astronomer and SETI leader ## Definition **Jill Tarter** is a radio astronomer and SETI leader. At ICE, joined Patricia Churchland and Marcelo Gleiser for Future of Intelligence. ## Projects, contributions, and institutional alignments co-founded and long led major programs at the SETI Institute, including Project Phoenix; her work focuses on technosignatures, radio searches, instrument development, and the long-duration scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence. ## Relationships - **ICE role:** [[wiki/Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement|Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement]]. - **wider alignments:** [[wiki/SETI Institute|SETI Institute]], Project Phoenix, technosignatures, and the Allen Telescope Array ecosystem. - **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [Institutional or primary profile](https://www.seti.org/people/jill-tarter/) - [ICE archive](https://www.ice.dartmouth.edu/)