Renu Malhotra (born 1961) is an American planetary scientist from India, known for using the orbital resonance between Pluto and Neptune to infer large-scale orbital migration of the giant planets and to predict the existence of Plutinos in resonance with Neptune.
[1][2] She is credited by the Minor Planet Center with the co-discovery of (455206) 2001 FE193, a trans-Neptunian object in the Kuiper belt.
[5] Malhotra then attended Cornell University, where she was introduced to non-linear dynamics by Mitchell Feigenbaum.
[6] She received her Ph.D. degree in Physics from Cornell in 1988, with Stanley Dermott as her doctoral advisor.
With the help of Peter Goldreich who had read her paper on the moons of Uranus, she obtained a postdoctoral research position at California Institute of Technology.