Sascha P. Quanz is a principal investigator and professor at ETH Zurich, where he leads the Exoplanets & Habitability Research Group in the Department of Physics. An exoplanetary scientist, his long-term goal is to search for life outside our Solar System on planets orbiting stars other than our Sun.

Quanz is the Principal Investigator for the LIFE space mission, which aims to detect and characterize the atmospheres of hundreds of extrasolar planets.