Dr. Vicky Hamilton is a geoscientist specializing in laboratory and remote sensing spectroscopy of minerals and meteorites, numerical modeling of infrared spectra, planetary surface composition, and thermophysical properties. She has extensive experience with science and instrument operations on numerous NASA planetary science flight missions. She is the Deputy Principal Investigator of the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) instrument onboard the 2001 Mars Odyssey and was a Participating Scientist on the Mars Science Laboratory mission. She has participated in instrument and mission proposals leading to her positions as a Co-I and Instrument Scientist (for the OSIRIS-REx Thermal Emission Spectrometer, OTES) on NASA’s New Frontiers OSIRIS-REx and OSIRIS-APEX missions; she led the OSIRIS-REx Spectral Analysis Working Groups during operations and sample analysis and she served on the PI’s Sample Science Council as the Mission Spectroscopy Scientist. Dr. Hamilton is a science team Co-Investigator and the Deputy Principal Investigator of the Lucy Thermal Emission Spectrometer (L’TES) instrument on NASA’s Lucy mission. She was the Chair of the Panel on Mars for the most recent National Academies Decadal Survey in Planetary Science. She is currently the Chair of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG), a research community-based, interdisciplinary forum providing the science input needed to plan and prioritize NASA’s Mars exploration activities.