Dr. Andrea Donnellan is head and professor at the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at Purdue University and a Distinguished Visiting Scientist and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Previously she was a Senior Research Scientist at JPL and managed the Instrument Systems Section. Donnellan studies earthquakes and crustal deformation using geodetic imaging and computational modeling. She leads NASA’s Surface Topography and Vegetation Study. Donnellan has degrees in Geology (BS Ohio State University), Geophysics (MS and PhD Caltech), and Computer Science (MS University of Southern California). She held a postdoctoral fellowship at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Donnellan is a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and The Explorers Club. In 1996 she won the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and in 2012 NASA’s Software of the Year Award. She has a glacier named after her in Antarctica for her work on that continent.