Psyche Archives - UC Berkeley Space Sciences Lab

Psyche talk embodies spirit of Center for Integrative Planetary Science lecture series

By Alan Toth | November 7, 2025

Lindy Elkins-Tanton, SSL Director and PI of the Psyche mission, delivers a talk at CIPS.

On October 15, Lindy Elkins-Tanton gave a talk on NASA’s Psyche mission as part of a Center for Integrative Planetary Science seminar series.

Planetary scientist Lindy Elkins-Tanton to head Space Sciences Laboratory

By Robert Sanders | May 6, 2025

Lindy Elkins-Tanton portrait taken at Space Sciences Laboratory

Lindy Elkins-Tanton, a geologist and planetary scientist, will be the new director of UC Berkeley’s Space Sciences Laboratory, effective July 1. She currently leads the NASA Psyche mission to explore an asteroid called Psyche.