Presenter

Dr. Anjali Tripathi is an astrophysicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and NASA’s inaugural Exoplanet Science Ambassador. As an expert in planet formation and evolution, she has contributed to the design of new space missions for NASA. Dr. Tripathi is a leading science communicator, regularly featured by the BBC, PBS, and TED, and a film and television consultant for the National Academy of Sciences. She has served on the NASA Sea Level Change Team, been a Research Associate of the Smithsonian, and led data visualization for the L.A. County Department of Public Health COVID Data and Epidemiology Team. She previously led science policy for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She earned degrees in physics and astrophysics from Harvard, Cambridge, and MIT.