Martin ELVIS

Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian • Astrophysicist

Dr. Martin Elvis is an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian. He has published nearly 500 papers on supermassive black holes that have been cited over 40,000 times. He publishes widely on asteroid and lunar resources, the space economy and on emerging legal, policy, and ethical issues of their use. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is past-Chair of the Hubble Space Telescope Users’ Committee and of the High Energy Division of the American Astronomical Society. He is a co-chair of the International Astronomical Union working group on "Astronomy from the Moon". Asteroid 9283 Martinelvis is named after him. His book "Asteroids: How love, fear, and greed will determine our future in space" was published by Yale University Press in 2021. Martin ELVIS

Events

International Astronautical Congress 2025

29 September - 3 October 2025

Sydney, Australia

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