Dr Ellen Stofan (NASA Chief Scientist) and Dr David Miler (NASA Chief Technologist) will deliver a lecture at UCL discussing the future of human space exploration.

Chaired by Dr Lucie Green, UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory.

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Ellen Stofan

Dr. Ellen Stofan was appointed NASA chief scientist on August 25, 2013, serving as principal advisor to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on the agency's science programs and science-related strategic planning and investments. Prior to her appointment, Stofan was vice president of Proxemy Research in Laytonsville, Md., and honorary professor in the department of Earth sciences at University College London in England. Her research has focused on the geology of Venus, Mars, Saturn's moon Titan, and Earth. Stofan is an associate member of the Cassini Mission to Saturn Radar Team and a co-investigator on the Mars Express Mission's MARSIS sounder. She also was principal investigator on the Titan Mare Explorer, a proposed mission to send a floating lander to a sea on Titan.

David Miller

Dr. David W. Miller began his term as the NASA chief technologist on March 17, 2014. He serves as the agency’s principal advisor and advocate on NASA technology policy and programs. NASA's Office of the Chief Technologist coordinates, tracks and integrates technology investments across the agency and works to infuse innovative discoveries into future missions. Dr Miller is also the Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics and was the Director of the Space Systems Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has worked with a broad range of NASA programs including the space shuttle, the International Space Station, the JWST Product Integrity Team, and the NASA CubeSat Launch Initiative. Most recently, he was the Principal Investigator for the Regolith X-ray Imaging Spectrometer for the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, and a NASA Institute of Advanced Concepts fellow.

Lucie Green

Lucie Green is a a Royal Society University Research Fellow and a space scientist based at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL's Department of Space and Climate Physics. She studies activity in the atmosphere of the Sun; in particular, immense magnetic fields in the Sun's atmosphere which sporadically erupt to form a coronal mass ejection. She is interested in how the magnetic configuration of the eruptions relates to geomagnetic activity and what this means for those living in the UK. She sits on the board of the European Solar Physics Division (ESPD) of the European Physical Society and the advisory board of the Science Museum. She has a broad interest in communicating the latest space science and astronomy research and recently joined the BBC's Sky at Night team. She has contributed to many programmes on BBC 1, BBC News 24, ITV and BBC World, including GMTV, the Xchange, the One Show and Material World, and co-presented the Stardate series on the BBC with Adam Hart-Davis and the Transit of Venus Horizon special.