Arianna Gleason

Arianna Elizabeth Gleason Holbrook (born 1980) is an American condensed matter physicist and planetary scientist who studies the behavior of matter in extreme conditions of pressure and temperature, as can be found at the cores of planets and stars, in planetary collisions, during certain kinds of explosion, and, on a smaller scale, in cavitation. Gleason works at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory as a staff scientist and deputy division director in the Fundamental Physics Directorate, High Energy Density Science Division, and as an adjunct faculty member at Stanford University in its departments of geological science and mechanical engineering. Provided by Wikipedia