Explore the exceptional achievements of past recipients of the Betty Pierazzo Awards. These talented graduate students have demonstrated outstanding contributions to planetary science and have built strong international collaborations. Discover their remarkable work and the impact they have made in advancing our understanding of the cosmos.
| PHOTO | NAME | YEAR | ABOUT |
|---|---|---|---|
 | Mishal K T | 2025 | Mishal K T (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur) for Characterization of Hydration at Compton Belkovich Volcanic Complex on the Moon at the 56th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference to be held in The Woodlands, Texas, March 10-14, 2025. |
 | Namya Baijal | 2025 | Namya Baijal (University of Arizona) for Three-dimensional Modelling of the Major Impact Craters on (16) Psyche at the Europlanet Science Congress - Division of Planetary Sciences Joint Meeting to be held in Helsinki, Finland, September 7-12, 2025. |
 | Pa Chia Thao | 2024 | Pa Chia Thao (University of North Carolina) for Probing the Atmosphere of the 17 Myr, Gas Giant, HIP 67522b with JWST at Exoplanets V in Leiden, The Netherlands, June 16-21, 2024. |
 | Kiersten Boley | 2024 | Kiersten Boley (Ohio State University) for The First Evidence of a Metallicity Cliff in the Formation of Super-Earths at Extreme Solar Systems V in Christchurch, New Zealand, March 16-21, 2024. |
 | Salvatore Buoninfante | 2024 | Salvatore Buoninfante (Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”) for Relationship between tectonic and crustal structures of Mercury at the 55th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, March 11-15, 2024. |
 | Sarah Henderson | 2023 | Sarah Henderson (University of Iowa) for Influence of Magnetic Fields on Precipitating Solar Wind Hydrogen at Mars at the European Geophysical Union in Vienna, Austria, April 23-28, 2023. |
 | Bea Baharier | 2023 | Bea Baharier (Open University) for Terrestrial Aqueously Altered Magmatic Dike Forming Sulfate-Rich Hydrothermal Fluids to Constrain Martian Habitability at 54th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, March 13-17, 2023. |
 | AWARDS SUSPENDED | 2021 | 2021 AWARDS SUSPENDED DUE TO COVID |
 | Jakob Deller | 2014 | Jakob Deller (University of Kent, UK, and Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Germany) for SPH Modeling of Impact Events on Non-Spherical Rubble-Pile Asteroid Simulants to be presented at the 46th Meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society in Tucson, Arizona, November 9-14, 2014. |
 | Jacob A. Richardson | 2014 | Jacob A. Richardson (University of South Florida) for LiDAR Observations of an Earth Magma Plumbing System as an Analog for Venus and Mars Distributed Volcanism to be presented at the European Geophysical Union General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, April 27 – May 2, 2014. |
 | Caroline Morely | 2015 | Caroline Morely (University of California, Santa Cruz) for Modeling and Observing the Effects of Clouds and Hazes in Exoplanets to be presented at Planetary Systems: A Synergistic View, in Quy Nhon, Vietnam, July 19-25, 2015. |
 | Edgar Steenstra | 2015 | Edgar Steenstra (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) for a presentation on Core formation in Vesta and the Moon at the 46th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, March 16-20, 2015. |
 | Christy Caudill | 2016 | Christy Caudill (Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration at the University of Western Ontario, Canada) for Large Basin Impact Cratering Processes as Understood Through Martian and Terrestrial Impact Studies at the American Geophysical Union Fall 2016 Meeting in San Francisco, Calif., Dec. 12-16, 2016. |
 | Sheridan Ackiss | 2016 | Sheridan Ackiss (Purdue University) for Mineralogical Evidence for Subglacial Volcanoes in the Sisyphi Montes Region of Mars at the 6th International Conference on Mars Polar Science and Exploration in Reykjavik, Iceland Sept. 5-9, 2016. |
 | Frances Butcher | 2017 | Frances Butcher (Open University in the United Kingdom) for Eskers Associated with Extant Glaciers in Mid-Latitude Graben on Mars: Evidence for Geothermal Controls upon Recent Basal Melting of Glaciers on Mars at the 48th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas March 20-24, 2017. |
 | Katherine de Kleer | 2017 | Katherine de Kleer (University of California, Berkeley) for The Impact of Io’s Volcanism on the Jovian Extended Neutral Environment at the joint Japan Geoscience Union – American Geophysical Union meeting in Chiba, Japan May 20-25, 2017. |
 | Lauren Mc Keown | 2018 | Lauren Mc Keown (Trinity College Dublin) for A Quantitative Comparison Between Theory And Experiment for CO2 Sublimation on a Granular Surface under Terrestrial and Martian Conditions at the 49th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, March 19-23, 2018. |
 | Gregory J. Gilbert | 2018 | Gregory J. Gilbert (University of Chicago) for A Universal Framework for Classifying Exoplanet Systems at the Exoplanets II conference at Cambridge, the United Kingdom, July 2-6, 2018. |
 | Sammy Griffin | 2019 | Sammy Griffin (University of Glasgow), for New Insights into the Magmatic and Shock History of the Naklite Meteorites from Electron Backscatter Diffraction at the 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston, Texas. March 18-22, 2019. |
 | Ying (Katherina) Feng | 2019 | Ying (Katherina) Feng (University of California, Santa Cruz), for Probing the Phase Dependence of Atmospheric Inference for Hot Jupiters at the Exoclimes V conference at Oxford, the United Kingdom, Aug. 12-15, 2019. |
 | Lucy Kissick | 2020 | Lucy Kissick (Oxford University), for The Sedimentary Archive of Atmospheric CO2 on Mars and Sample Return from a Relic Ocean World: the Calathus Mission to Occator Crater, Ceres at the 51st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, March 16-20, 2020. |
 | Malena Rice | 2020 | Malena Rice (Yale University), for Probing the Solar System with the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) at the Expanding the Science of TESS Workshop in Sydney, Australia, Feb. 10-14, 2020. |
 | Suchitra Narayanan | 2022 | Suchitra Narayanan (University of Hawaii at Manoa) for Analyzing the Substructure and Dynamics and Sulfur Organics Inventory of Oph IRS43 at the Protostars and Planets VII conference in Kyoto, Japan, September 2022. |
 | Joseph McNeil | 2022 | Joseph McNeil (Open University) for Windows into Noachian Mars: Eroded landforms in Chryse Planitia and the ExoMars rover landing site at the 53rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference at The Woodlands, Texas, March 7-11, 2022. |
 | Ophélie McIntosh | 2022 | Ophélie McIntosh (University Paris-Saclay) for Thermal reactivity of organic molecules with chloride salts: consequences for the chemical composition of Mars samples analyzed in situ with the GCMS, SAM, and MOMA instruments at the Astrobiology Science Conference (AbSciCon) in Atlanta, Georgia, May 15-20, 2022. |
 | Pim Kaskes | 2022 | Pim Kaskes (Vrije Universiteit Brussel for Suevite emplacement and impact melt dynamics within the Chicxulub impact structure and High-resolution chemostratigraphy across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary at the 53st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, March 7-11, 2022. |
