Jennifer Mae Jackson is the William E. Leonhard Professor of Mineral Physics in the Seismological Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena where her work focuses on minerals in the deep Earth and planetary interiors. She received her Master’s degree at the University of Notre Dame, in South Bend, Indiana in 2000 and her Ph.D. degree in Geology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2005. Her Ph.D. was followed by positions as Visiting Scientist at the Advanced Photon Source of Argonne National Laboratory and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC. In 2007, she joined the faculty at Caltech. Her research vision incorporates the role of minerals in shaping the diversity of processes inside Earth, from the deepest parts of the metallic core to volcanic systems near the surface. Professor Jackson develops and applies unique experiments to materials under extreme conditions of pressure and temperature using diamond-anvil pressure vessels, infrared lasers, and x-ray scattering techniques. While fostering interdisciplinary collaborations with colleagues at Caltech, JPL and the greater scientific community, she has mentored students and postdoctoral scholars, and expanded her research purview beyond Earth. Recently, she is developing unconventional geophysical techniques that involve infrasound detection of seismicity from aerial-platforms (balloons) to study the interiors of other planetary bodies, such as Venus. Professor Jackson is a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America.