Georgia Institute of Technology (2013-2021) Britney Schmidt (born 1982/1983) is an American earth scientist and astrobiologist[1] at Cornell University.

When she was a graduate student at UCLA, she worked with Christopher Russell on the Dawn spacecraft mission, and continued research on Europa.

[1] Schmidt worked on a team at the University of Texas as a postdoc that found evidence of a vast lake on the moon's surface.

[4] While at Georgia Tech, Schmidt continued to research Europa, particularly focusing on the possibility that there was life on the moon and studying the presence of "chaos terrain" there.

[9] Schmidt continued her ice shelf research at Cornell, co-publishing a paper in early 2023 on data that Icefin had gathered about Thwaites Glacier.

[9] In 2023, she was included on the Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world with Peter Davis for their research on the Thwaites Glacier,[12] and in September 2024 she was named a laureate of the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists.