Polymath World # Episode 25 - DR MEGANNE CHRISTIAN

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ESA ASTRONAUT

I loved talking to the outstanding Dr Meganne Christian, astronaut reserve for the European Space Agency.

Dr Meganne Christian is an ESA astronaut in reserve, appointed from the 2022 class. Meganne studied at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, and graduated in 2009 with a Bachelor of Engineering in industrial chemistry. In 2014 she received her PhD in industrial chemistry with several scholarships such as the University of New South Wales Research Excellence Award. During her studies and after graduation, she received several national awards for outstanding research. Meganne is currently working as exploration commercialisation lead for the UK Space Agency. She speaks 4 languages. From 2018 to 2019, Meganne served as a winter-over scientist at the Concordia station in Antarctica for the national research council of Italy, and the Italian National Antarctic Research Programme. As scientist in charge of atmospheric physics and meteorology at the French-Italian research base, she was responsible for various observatories, including radiation, meteorology, stratospheric lidars, chemical and physical atmospheric aerosols and infrared radiation for Antarctic clouds. She returned to the Concordia Station for a temporary assignment as scientist in charge of the atmospheric physics and meteorology observatories from October 2020 to January 2021. For these expeditions Meganne was also trained in firefighting, medical aid, rescue, and survival in extreme conditions. She participated in biomedical research run by ESA and various public activities to report about her experiences and activities during the winter-over. Between 2014 and 2022, Meganne worked as a research fellow then staff researcher at the Institute of Organic Synthesis and Photo reactivity and the Institute for Microelectronics and Microsystems in Bologna, Italy, as part of the EU scientific research initiative Graphene Flagship. During this time, she took part in two parabolic flight campaigns in 2017 and 2021 to test graphene coatings for thermal management in satellites. She successfully issued further articles and award-winning publications and served as ambassador for Graphene Flagship initiatives. From 2021, Meganne was a lecturer on Problem Solving and Decision Making for businesses, as well as a researcher for the National Research Council of Italy.

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