Brett Denevi

I've long been interested in space and exploration, and had a vague notion that I wanted to work for NASA, but had never heard of planetary science as a career. After stumbling upon a summer job looking at amazing pictures of an asteroid all day, I found out you could major in geology and not be confined to the Earth - you could study the geology of most of the solar system.

As an undergraduate at Northwestern University, I helped out with work for the NEAR mission to the asteroid Eros. I went to Honolulu to get my Ph.D. in Geology and Geophysics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where I focused on disentangling compositional information from visible and near-infrared reflectance spectra of the Moon. I'm currently a Post-doc at Arizona State University, working on LROC and the MESSENGER mission to Mercury.