David Paige

David Paige, born in Los Angeles, CA, received his B.S. degree at UCLA in Geophysics and Space Physics in 1979. He received his Ph.D. from Caltech in Planetary Science in 1985. He joined the faculty of the then Earth and Space Sciences department at UCLA in 1986. He is the Principal Investigator of the Diviner instrument on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter that has been mapping the Moon continuously since 2009, and a Co-Investigator on L-CiRIS and Lunar Flashlight. He also serves as the Deputy Principal Investigator of the Radar Imager for Mars’ Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX) instrument aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover which landed on Mars in early 2021. RIMFAX is the first ground-penetrating radar to explore Mars creating a 2-D map of subsurface layers along the rover's driven path.