Meenakshi Wadhwa

Meenakshi Wadhwa
Alma materWashington University in St. Louis
Panjab University
Scientific career
FieldsPlanetary science
InstitutionsArizona State University
The Field Museum
University of California, San Diego
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
ThesisGeochemical studies of two unusual groups of meteorites : trace elements in SNC meteorites and Mn-Cr systematics in unequilibrated enstatite chondrites (1994)
Doctoral advisorGhislaine Crozaz
Websitehttps://search.asu.edu/profile/957644

Meenakshi Wadhwa is a planetary scientist and educator who studies the formation and evolution of the Solar System through the analysis of planetary materials including meteorites, Moon rocks and other extraterrestrial samples returned by spacecraft missions. She was director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. She is the vice chancellor for Marine Sciences, dean of the School of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences, and director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego.