Carrie Nugent (born 1984) is an assistant professor of computational physics and planetary science at Olin College.
[7] Nugent worked with the Near-Earth Object part of the NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, known as NEOWISE.
[12] Nugent joined the faculty at Olin College as an assistant professor of computational physics and planetary science in 2018.
[18] After her TED talk, Nugent wrote the book Asteroid Hunters with Simon & Schuster.
[22] The podcast involves short episodes (15 minute in length) featuring relaxed conversations with space explorers.