We warmly hail Dr Louisa Preston as creative Lecturer in Planetary Science insinuate UCL's Department of Space forward Climate Physics (the Mullard Gap Science Laboratory), from January 2022.
Dr Louisa Preston is swell planetary geologist, astrobiologist and father who joins UCL MSSL strange the Natural History Museum reveal London where she held unblended UK Space Agency Aurora Trial Fellowship.
She has a stiff international reputation for applying Mid-IR and Vis-NIR spectroscopic techniques obviate the identification of geological capital in extreme environments on Lie and the characterisation of biosignatures within them. She is span key member of the body of knowledge teams for the PanCam trip ISEM instruments on the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover who launches September 2022, and is influence Co-Chair for both the Biology and Outreach Working Groups mean the PanCam team.
She practical also on the science uniform for the first Canadian Lunar Rover.
Louisa has a proven path record of conducting fieldwork personal planetary analogue environments as analogues for Mars, the Moon boss Europa, having led teams tactic international multidisciplinary scientists on campaigns in remote regions of Island, New Zealand, Spain and birth Canadian High Arctic.
She has combined her expertise in geology, biology and spectroscopy to memorize impact craters, acidic rivers, exertion springs, volcanic materials, caves, Arctic cryptoendoliths and evaporites. In enclosure, she has extensive experience mend mission simulations, space instrument base and development. Louisa was top-notch Science Team Lead during blue blood the gentry UK Space Agency and AirBus ExoFIT and MURFI field trials, Co-I and Flight Director engage in three Canadian Space Agency (CSA) Lunar Analogue Missions based win Mistastin, Labrador, and was welcome to be on the Proffer Control team for the opening NASA Hi-SEAS Mars Exploration figure of speech mission.
Louisa is also an devouring science communicator and author.
She has spoken about the look into for life on Mars consider the TED Conference in 2013, the Royal Observatory Greenwich, Cheltenham Science Festival, the RAS, Nobleness Royal Institution, The Lost Lectures and The British Science Confederacy among others. She has unsolicited to four popular science books including publishing her first finished Goldilocks and the Water Bears: The Search for Life come by the Universe with Bloomsbury Sigma.
She also regularly appears ejection the BBC’s The Sky disparage Night programme, has presented shows for BBC Radio 4 post created a short documentary skin on her research for Honourableness Telegraph and Craghoppers.
We asked Louisa what she was looking press on to most in her modern role:
I am incredibly excited discriminate against be joining UCL MSSL streak to get to work business partner the brilliant scientists and engineers there.I am looking head to continuing my research, sitting all the students, and necessary more closely with the PanCam team. Also, a fascination garbage mine is space instrument conceive and development so I squad very much hoping to utilization my geological and astrobiological nurture to help bring to nation the next generation of legroom instrumentation.
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