Lindy Elkins-TantonSpeaker and Booking Agent Information

Lindy Elkins-Tanton is a planetary scientist whose research focuses on how rocky planets, magma oceans, and planetesimals form and evolve. She serves as the Principal Investigator for NASA’s Psyche mission to the metallic asteroid 16 Psyche, and is also the Director of the UC Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory as well as a professor of Earth and Planetary Science. Elkins-Tanton co-founded Beagle Learning, an organization dedicated to collaborative problem-solving and critical thinking. She received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from MIT. Over the course of her career, she has held positions at Brown University, served on the MIT faculty, directed the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, and led the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University before joining Berkeley in 2025. She has led field expeditions in Siberia and is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.