Brief Bio
Dr. Jamie Elsila (Cook) is an Astrochemist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center with a research emphasis on stable isotopic signatures of extraterrestrial organic compounds. She is responsible for the isotopic measurement side of Goddard’s Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory and focuses her research on the measurement of carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen stable isotopic ratios in extraterrestrial organics, including amino acids in carbonaceous chondrites and cometary material returned by the Stardust mission. She is also a scientific Co-Investigator for the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the Goddard Center for Astrobiology.
Current Projects
Goddard Center for Astrobiology, NASA Astrobiology Institute
NASA Cosmochemistry
Positions/Employment
Education
Ph.D. (Chemistry - 2004) Stanford University, Stanford, CA
B.A. (Chemistry, summa cum laude - 1996) Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI
Professional Societies
Brief Bio
Dr. Jamie Elsila (Cook) is an Astrochemist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center with a research emphasis on stable isotopic signatures of extraterrestrial organic compounds. She is responsible for the isotopic measurement side of Goddard’s Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory and focuses her research on the measurement of carbon, nitrogen, and hydrogen stable isotopic ratios in extraterrestrial organics, including amino acids in carbonaceous chondrites and cometary material returned by the Stardust mission. She is also a scientific Co-Investigator for the NASA Astrobiology Institute at the Goddard Center for Astrobiology.
