Suzie Imber is an Associate Professor of Planetary Science at the University of Leicester. She specialises in studying space weather; understanding the impact of the solar wind on the magnetised planets, in particular the Earth and Mercury. Suzie is a co-investigator on the x-ray spectrometer on board the joint ESA/JAXA BepiColombo spacecraft that launched in October 2018 and will arrive at Mercury in 2025.
Suzie was also the winner of the recent BBC 2 series entitled Astronauts: Do You Have What it Takes? during which twelve candidates were put through astronaut training with NASA astronaut Chris Hadfield. She endured challenges such as taking her own blood, speaking Russian while in a centrifuge at 5g and carrying out emergency procedures on the NASA undersea astronaut training facility, Aquarius. Suzie will receive a letter of recommendation from Chris Hadfield to support her application to the European Space Agency astronaut training programme.
Suzie was recently selected as one of 80 women from all over the world for a specialised leadership programme known as Homeward Bound. It's a year-long, international leadership programme aimed at training a cohort of women working in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), alongside policy makers, that will collaborate to seek solutions to climate change, engage with governments, and become the visible leaders of the future.
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