Role
LV-GRNS Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator
Biography
Craig Hardgrove is an Associate Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. He earned his PhD in Geology from the University of Tennessee in 2011 and a BS in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2005. He is the Principal Investigator for NASA’s Lunar Polar Hydrogen Mapper (LunaH-Map) CubeSat mission, which launched on Artemis I in 2022, and a Participating Scientist on the Curiosity rover’s Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons investigation. His research focuses on nuclear spectroscopy for planetary exploration, developing and applying neutron and gamma-ray techniques to detect hydration and compositional variations in planetary surfaces. He has contributed to numerous planetary missions, including Curiosity, Perseverance, BepiColombo, and Lunar-VISE, and leads the Planetary Neutron Spectroscopy Group at ASU, where his team designs new instruments and field campaigns to advance our understanding of volatile distributions across the Solar System.