Dr. Veronica Bray has been a Research Scientist with LPL since 2011. This May, she transitioned to the research faculty rank as an Associate Research Professor.

Veronica has worked as a Spacecraft Operations Engineer with the HiRISE project, investigating central pit craters with the HiRISE and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera teams. Her research focus is impact cratering, channel formation, fracturing and landscape evolution on a variety of planetary bodies. She uses observations at multiple wavelengths, computer modeling, terrestrial fieldwork and theoretical analysis to study the surface processes themselves and also the surface/sub-surface properties of planetary bodies.

Veronica earned her Ph.D. in planetary science from Imperial College London in 2008. In addition to her research with HiRISE and LROC imagery, Dr. Bray has conducted crater mapping and analysis studies on the Galilean satellites. In 2022, she co-authored a study detailing the discovery of an asteroid impact crater beneath the North Atlantic Ocean that could have implications for the dinosaur extinction.