Louisa PrestonLouisa Preston is a UK Space Agency Aurora research Fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, and a Lecturer in Space Science at NYU London. She has worked on projects for NASA and the Canadian, European and UK Space Agencies, and was on the sience team for the PanCam instrument onboard the ExoMars 2020 rover.

Louisa regularly works with the media, having appeared on many episodes of Sky at Night, BBC World Service, Fry and Rutherford and Women's Hour. She has spoken at New Scientist Live, The Royal Institution, the Cheltenham Science Festival and The Lost Lectures, to name a few, and is a TED Fellow. She recently filmed a short documentary on her research for The Telegraph, and has consulted for many popular television science shows. She has penned articles for publications such as The Times, Wired, New Scientist and Vice. Her first book was Goldilocks and the Water Bears, which was published by Bloomsbury Sigma in 2016.

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