First name

Alexandra

Last name

Navrotsky

Academic unit

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Type of professor

Regents Professor

Year

2022

Bio image

Alexandra Navrotsky

Bio summary

Navrotsky is the director of the Navrotsky Eyring Center for the Materials of the Universe. She has been described as the world's leading scientist in the field of thermochemistry of minerals and related solid-state materials. Her discoveries have been of fundamental importance in solid-state chemistry, geochemistry, materials science and engineering, exoplanetary chemistry and materials for space exploration.