Dr. Martin Elvis is an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian. He has published 500 papers on supermassive black holes that have been cited over 45,000 times. He publishes widely on asteroid and lunar resources, the space economy and on emerging legal, policy, and ethical issues of their use. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and of the American Astronomical Society. He is past-Chair of the Hubble Space Telescope Users’ Committee and of the High Energy Division of the American Astronomical Society. He is a co-chair of the International Astronomical Union working group on « Astronomy from the Moon ». Asteroid 9283 Martinelvis is named after him. His book « Asteroids: How love, fear, and greed will determine our future in space » was published by Yale University Press in 2021.