Dr. Deborah Domingue Lorin

Dr. Domingue’s first role on a planetary mission was as the liason between the science team and mission operations on the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) mission, insuring that instrument operations met science needs. She was also a member of the NEAR science team, working on the camera and spectrometer joint instrument team. She was also a member of the MESSENGER science team, working in the Geology Discipline Group. She also served as MESSENGER’s Deputy Project Scientist until 2009, responsible for science operations within both the science team and mission operations. Currently Dr. Domingue is a participating scientist on the Japanese mission Hayabusa2. Hayabusa2 will rendezvous with the C-type asteroid Ryugu in the summer of 2018 and return samples back to Earth. Her role on the Science Team is to facilitate studies of Ryugu's regolith using both imaging and spectrometer observations. 

In addition to mission work, Dr. Domingue is a member of the NASA's Solar System Exporation and Research Vertual Institute's Toolbox for Research and Exploration (TREX) node. She works as the lead for the small bodies studies theme within TREX.