Elisabetta Pierazzo

Elisabetta "Betty" Pierazzo (1963-2011)[1]  was a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute from 2002 to 2011.

[3] Elisabetta was born in Noale, Italy on July 4, 1963, to mother Maria Scattolin and father Nerino Pierazzo.

[2] Notably, Pierazzo worked on providing information about the Chicxulub impact, which is said to have killed the dinosaurs.

In 2009, the scientist was featured in a three-part National Geographic special entitled "Known Universe", where she was interviewed about impact modeling at the Barringer meteor crater in Arizona.

[6] During this time, Pierazzo also served as adjunct faculty at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, where she taught Astrobiology.