Aileen Yingst graduated from Dartmouth College in 1991 with a degree in Physics and Astronomy and a minor in Geology. During graduate school at Brown University, Dr. Yingst served on the Galileo mission to Jupiter and its moons, and worked closely with the Clementine lunar reconnaissance team. She received her master's degree in 1995 and her Ph.D. in 1998, both in Geology. She did postdoctoral work for two years with the Mars Atmospheric and Geologic Imaging team at the University of Arizona, working as a geologist on the Mars Pathfinder and Mars Polar Lander missions. Dr. Yingst is now at the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay, where she continues her research in the surface composition of Mars and the interior workings of the Moon. She serves as adjunct assistant professor as well as Director of NASA's Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium. Dr. Yingst is a co-Investigator on the MAHLI microimaging camera for Mars Science Laboratory, a mission slated to land on Mars in 2009.