ERIK ASPHAUG Professional Preparation: • BA, Mathematics and English, Rice University, 1984 • Faculty, Science and English, St. Gregory High School, 1985-1988 • Ph.D., Planetary Sciences (Geophysics), University of Arizona, 1993 • NRC Postdoc, NASA Ames Research Center, 1993-1995 Appointments: • Professor, U. Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, 2017- • Professor and Ronald Greeley Chair of Planetary Science, ASU, School of Earth and Space Exploration, 2012-2017 • Professor, UCSC, Earth and Planetary Sciences, 2006-2012 • Assoc. Professor, UCSC, Earth Sciences, 2002-2006 • Asst. Professor, UCSC, Earth Sciences, 2000-2002 • Assoc. Researcher, UCSC, Earth Sciences, 1998-2000 • Principal Investigator, SETI Institute, 1996-1998 Honors and Awards: • Asteroid 7939 Asphaug, discovered by Eleanor Helin • Harold C. Urey Prize of the DPS/AAS, 1998 Selected Recent Research Publications: Cambioni, Asphaug, Emsenhuber, Gabriel, Furfaro & Schwartz (2019). Realistic On-the-fly Outcomes of Planetary Collisions: Machine Learning Applied to Simulations of Giant Impacts. Astrophys. J. 875, 40 Sava & Asphaug (2018). 3D radar wavefield tomography of comet interiors. Adv. Space Res. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2018.01.040 Perera, Jackson, Elkins-Tanton & Asphaug (2018). Effect of reimpacting debris on the solidification of the lunar magma ocean. JGR Planets 123, 1168-1191 Asphaug (2017). Signatures of Hit-and-run Collisions. Chapter in Planetesimals, Cambridge Planetary Science (L. Elkins-Tanton & B. Weiss, eds.), pp. 7-37. Asphaug, Thangavelautham, et al. (2017). A Cubesat Centrifuge for Long Duration Milligravity Research. NPJ Microgravity doi:10.1038/s41526-017-0021-0 Cotto-Figueroa, Asphaug, Garvie, et al. (2016). Scale-dependent measurements of meteorite strength: Implications for asteroid fragmentation. Icarus 277, 73-77 Hurford, Asphaug, Spitale, et al. (2016). Tidal Disruption of Phobos as the Cause of Surface Fractures. JGR: Planets Jutzi & Asphaug (2015). The shape and structure of cometary nuclei as a result of low- velocity accretion. Science 348 (6241), 1355-1358 Selected Research, Service and Mission Activities: 2017-pres. Space Studies Board, Committee on Astrobiology and Planetary Science 2019-pres. Science Team, Hera (ESA mission to the Didymos asteroid system) 2018-pres. Core Science Team, Martian Moons Exploration (JAXA MMX mission) 2015-pres. CoI, Psyche, to be launched in 2022 by NASA Discovery program 2010, 2015 PI, Comet Radar Explorer, competed proposals to NASA Discovery program 2015 NASA Asteroid Redirect Mission Formulation Assessment & Support Team 2008, 2015 Workshop Lead, Spacecraft Reconnaissance of Asteroid and Comet Interiors 2006-2010 CoI, Lunar Cratering Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission 2009-2010 Primitive Bodies Panel, NRC Planetary Sciences Decadal Survey 2008 Director/Lead Instructor, NASA Ames Small Spacecraft Summer Study 2003-2007 Director, UCSC Center for the Origin, Dynamics and Evolution of Planets .