Dr Hamish Hay - Planetary Scientist

My mission is to understand the geophysical processes operating with planetary solid and liquid interiors that influence their thermal, orbital, and habitable evolution over time. I want to discover how these processes can be observed using data from existing and future spacecraft missions.

I am a postdoctoral research fellow in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of St Andrews. Before this, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford (2022-25), and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, working as an affiliate of the Europa Clipper mission (2020-22). I completed my PhD at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, researching oceanic tides of the outer solar system's icy moons and beyond.