Roseli Ocampo-Friedmann

Roseli Ocampo-Friedmann was a Filipino American whose research (with her husband) focused on cyanobacteria and microorganisms that live in extreme environments like the Ross Desert in the Dry Valleys region of Antarctica. NASA viewed her research as an indication that microscopic life could exist on Mars.

Source: https://www.sciencebuddies.org/blog/asian-american-pacific-islander-scientists-engineers