Stefanie Tompkins | |
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23rd Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | |
Assumed office March 15, 2021 | |
President | Joe Biden |
Preceded by | Victoria Coleman |
Personal details | |
Born | South Korea | January 21, 1967
Education | Princeton University (BA) Brown University (MA, PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Lunar geology |
Institutions | |
Thesis | Central peaks of impact craters as probes of lunar crustal composition: Results from laboratory and remote spectral data (1997) |
Doctoral advisor | Carle M. Pieters |
Stefanie Tompkins is an American geologist. She has been the director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) since 2021.[1]