Meet Our Physicists
Martin Elvis
Dr. Martin Elvis is a high energy astrophysicist who has published some 500 papers on supermassive black holes that have been cited over 35,000 times. He publishes widely on asteroid and lunar resources and the space economy. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Member of the Aspen Center for Physics, and is past-Chair of the Hubble Space Telescope Users’ Committee and of the High Energy Division of the American Astronomical Society. 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.
Positions Held
General Member, 2017 – current
Asst Scientific Secretary, 2020 – 2021
Scientific Secretary, 2021 – 2022