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Miriam Parise is a leading planetary seismologist whose work has fundamentally advanced our understanding of Mars’ deep interior. Her primary research focuses on the design, deployment, and data analysis of seismometers on extraterrestrial bodies, with her most significant contribution being her central role in NASA’s InSight mission. Parise is the principal architect behind the SEIS (Seismic Experiment for Internal Structure) instrument, a highly sensitive six-axis seismometer that, after 42 years of dormancy since the Viking landers, finally brought Mars’ seismic activity to light. Her landmark 2019 paper, “SEIS: Insight’s Seismic Experiment for Internal Structure of Mars,” which has garnered over 375 citations, details the instrument’s revolutionary Very Broad Band (VBB) sensor and its deployment. This work enabled the first direct measurements of marsquakes, revealing the planet’s crustal thickness, mantle structure, and core size. Parise’s technical ingenuity in overcoming the challenges of operating a seismometer on a dusty, windy world has not only reshaped Martian geology but also set the standard for future planetary seismology missions, including those targeting the Moon and Venus.