Bill Bottke received his PhD in planetary science from the University of Arizona in 1995, where he studied the collisional and dynamical evolution of asteroids. After postdoctoral fellowships at the California Institute of Technology and Cornell University, he joined the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in Boulder, Colorado in 2000. When he is not chasing after his three daughters, he works to understand the formation and evolution of planetary bodies in the solar system. He is currently the Section Manager of the Planetary Science group at SwRI.

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