Martin Elvis is an astrophysicist at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian. Previously he was a postdoctoral fellow with the UK Science Research Council. He has researched X-ray astronomy, black holes, and quasars, and now asteroids. In 2007, he won the Pirelli International Multimedia Science Communication Award. Asteroid 9283 Martinelvis is named after him. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
