Lindy Elkins Tanton

Lindy Elkins-Tanton is a planetary scientist and the lead (Principal Investigator) of the NASA Psyche mission, a $1 billion robotic spacecraft designed to visit a metallic asteroid. She is Director of the Space Sciences Laboratory at UC Berkeley and professor of Earth and Planetary Science. Her research focuses on the formation and evolution of rocky planets. She has held previous positions at Arizona State University, the Carnegie Institution for Science, MIT, and Brown University.