School of Earth and Space Exploration Leadership Team

Ramon Arrowsmith

 

Ramon Arrowsmith

Ramon Arrowsmith
Interim School Director
Ramon Arrowsmith studies active faults, topography, the geologic context for human evolution in East Africa, and the geology of earthquakes. He teaches Field Geology and Structural Geology. He is currently the School of Earth and Space Exploration Interim Director (as of August 1, 2025). 

 

 

Sarah Stewart

 

Sarah Stewart

Sarah Stewart 

Associate Director of Graduate Initiatives

Sarah Stewart is a planetary physicist who specializes in the study of collisions in the solar system. Her research encompasses the formation and destruction of planets, planetary geology, shock physics, and materials science.

 

Nathaniel Butler

 

Nat Butler

Nathaniel Butler
Associate Director of Undergraduate Initiatives

Nat Butler is an astrophysicist interested in the properties and evolution of the early universe. His current research focuses on experiments to observe and study astrophysical explosions and to use these to probe the first stars and galaxies and their environments.

Maitrayee Bose

 

Maitrayee Bose

Maitrayee Bose
Associate Director of Community Outreach

Maitrayee Bose is an isotope cosmochemist and laboratory astrophysicist, investigating the chemistry on rocky and icy surfaces of dwarf planets, asteroids and comets to understand how they originated and processes prevalent in small planetary bodies. She uses planetary simulants to probe planetary evolution, volatile cycling, and interactions between the planetary crust and their atmospheres. She is involved in the analysis of samples returned by the JAXA Hayabusa missions to asteroids Itokawa and Ryugu, and those returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission.



 

Christy Till

 

C.Till

Christy Till
Associate Director for an Inclusive Community 

Christy Till is a geologist who leads a multidisciplinary research program that studies the role of magma in the formation and evolution of planets, known as the EPIC lab. Her research and that of EPIC lab members includes determining the timescales and triggers for eruptions at active volcanoes in the US, growing minerals and magma in high pressure and temperature laboratory experiments, and studying likely compositions of magma and crusts on exoplanets.