Rosaly M. C. Lopes

Place: Rio De Janeiro

Born: 1957

Biography:

Rosaly M. C. Lopes is a planetary geologist and volcanologist who was born on January 8, 1957, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She studied astronomy at the University of London and later earned her Ph.D. in Planetary Science from the same institution. Lopes has worked extensively on various space missions, including the Galileo mission to Jupiter's moon Io and the Cassini mission to Saturn's moon Titan. Her research focuses on planetary and terrestrial surface processes with an emphasis on volcanology. She is currently a Senior Research Scientist and Manager for Planetary Science at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology.