Lori Glaze

Dr. Lori Glaze is the Acting Deputy Associate Administrator for NASA’s Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate (ESDMD). Before taking on this role, she served as the Director of the Planetary Science Division (Science Mission Directorate) for six years. Prior to her tenure at NASA Headquarters, she was the chief of the Planetary Geology, Geophysics and Geochemistry Laboratory at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and the Deputy Director of Goddard’s Solar System Exploration Division.

As a science researcher, her interests included physical processes in terrestrial and planetary volcanology, atmospheric transport and diffusion processes, and geologic mass movements. She was also involved in many NASA-sponsored Venus mission concept-formulation studies, including as Principal Investigator for the Deep Atmosphere Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging (DAVINCI) mission until her move to Headquarters.

Dr. Glaze was born in Texas. She graduated from the University of Texas, Arlington, with a B.A. and M.S. in Physics. She received a doctorate in Environmental Science from Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. She has also previously worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and at Proxemy Research as Vice President and Senior Research Scientist.