Quintana ya kasance memba na NASA Kepler Mission Team a NASA Ames Research Center daga 2006 zuwa 2017. Ta yi aiki a matsayin mai tsara shirye-shiryen kimiyya da ke haɓaka bututun Kepler, wanda aka ba ta lambar yabo ta NASA Software na Shekara a 2010.Ta kasance cikin tawagar da ta gano farkon dutsen exoplanet Kepler-10b, farkon exoplanet don kewaya yankin wurin zama na wani tauraro Kepler-22b, da kuma Kepler-20e mai girman duniya na farko. A cikin 2014, ta jagoranci tawagar da ta gano Kepler-186f, wani nau'i na exoplanet mai girman duniya wanda ke kewayawa a cikin yankin da ake zaune,tauraron dwarf ja, wanda aka buga a cikin mujallar Kimiyya. Quintana ta sami lambar yabo ta 2015 Masanin Kimiyya na Shekara daga Babban Minds a STEM don bincikenta na Kepler-186f da gudummawar kimiyya.

Elisa Quintana
Rayuwa
Haihuwa New Mexico, 1973 (50/51 shekaru)
ƙasa Tarayyar Amurka
Karatu
Makaranta University of Michigan (en) Fassara
University of California, San Diego (en) Fassara
Grossmont College (en) Fassara
Thesis director Fred Adams (en) Fassara
Sana'a
Sana'a Ilimin Taurari