Natalia Anatolievna (Natasha) Artemieva (Russian: Артемьева Наталия Анатольевна, born 1959) is a Russian planetary scientist whose research involves the computer simulationofmeteor impacts and the craters formed by them, especially for planets such as the Earth, Mars, and Jupiter where atmospheric effects play a significant role in the impact behavior. This line of research has also led her to the study of the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary and the formation of suevite in meteor impacts.[1] She is a senior researcher in the Institute of Geosphere Dynamics [ru] in Russia,[2] and a senior researcher at the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona, US.[3]
Artemieva was born in Yekaterinburg in 1959.[4] She studied at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, finishing a degree there in 1982, and became a researcher for the Schmidt Institute of Physics of the Earth [ru] of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, from which the Institute of Geosphere Dynamics spun off in the 1990s.[1]
Her interest in meteor impacts was sparked by the 1994 impact with Jupiter of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9. This led her to develop SOVA, a code for modeling the hypersonic flows arising in meteor impacts. She defended a doctoral dissertation on her work in 1996, jointly supervised by Ivan Nemtchinov and Valery Shuvalov,[1] through the Moscow Intitute of Physics and Technology.[5]
She started visiting the University of Arizona and the Planetary Science Institute in 2000, and in 2006 she became a senior researcher at the Planetary Science Institute.[5]
Artemieva was the 2012 recipient of the Peregrinus Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, given biennially for outstanding achievements by scholars from eastern and southeastern Europe.[4] She was the 2015 recipient of the Barringer MedalofThe Meteoritical Society, given for outstanding research in impact cratering and impact phenomena.[1]
Minor planet 11010 Artemieva, discovered in 1981 by Schelte J. Bus, was named for her.[6]
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