Lindy Elkins-Tanton

Lindy Elkins-Tanton is a planetary scientist, the Principal Investigator of the NASA Psyche mission, and Arizona State University Vice President of the Interplanetary Initiative. Her research concerns the formation and evolution of rocky planets, as well as on effective teams and future-facing educational practices. She has led four field expeditions in central Siberia. Asteroid (8252) Elkins-Tanton is named for her, as is the mineral elkinstantonite. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. In 2022 William Morrow published her memoir, A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman. Elkins-Tanton received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from MIT.