Craig Hardgrove

Dr. Craig Hardgrove is an Assistant Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at ASU. He earned his Doctoral degree in Geology from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Hardgrove is the Principal Investigator for the Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper (LunaH-Map) cubesat mission and a Participating Scientist on the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons instrument team. His research is focused on the characterization of hydrated rocks and their constituent phases on rocky planets as well as on small spacecraft development for interplanetary exploration. He is active in several NASA instrument development projects and has over a decade of experience working on spacecraft missions. In addition to serving as the Principal Investigator for LunaH-Map, Dr. Hardgrove is currently a member of the science team on the BepiColombo mission to Mercury.