Meet the Experts

Each week a different group experts will be online to answer questions on the 2015 CHRISTMAS LECTURES: How to Survive in Space.

Let’s meet the experts:

Kevin Fong
Presenter of the 2015 CHRISTMAS LECTURES
I spend my time exploring and learning about different systems and searching for ways to do risky things more safely. [Click through to read full profile]
Active: Roaming expert, available to drop in during any week

Adrianos Golemis
ESA Research MD, Concordia Space Station
Working as a research doctor for the European Space Agency (ESA) at a space analogue for a year — the remote Antarctic Station of Concordia. Conducting experiments on how our bodies and minds adapt to extreme conditions. [Click through to read full profile]
Active: Week 1 (4th–8th Jan)

Andrew Pitsillides
Professor, Royal Veterinary College
My speciality is in the skeletal response to gravitational loading. [Click through to read full profile]
Active: Week 3 (18th–22nd Jan), Week 4 (25th–29th Jan)

Beth Healey
ESA Research MD
I’m a medical doctor working in Antarctica as a researcher for the European Space Agency on ‘White Mars’. [Click through to read full profile]
Active: Week 4 (25th–29th Jan)

Camilla Weiss
Digital Design Engineer, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd
I work as a digital design engineer which basically means I’m an electronics engineer. I help to design, build and test modules like on board computers which are used to control the satellites we build. [Click through to read full profile]
Active: Week 4 (25th–29th Jan)

Claudie Haigneré
ESA Astronaut
Click here to read Claudie’s full bio on the ESA website, or I’m an Astronaut profile here.
Active: Week 3 (18th–22nd Jan), Week 4 (25th–29th Jan) — Claudie will be answering questions in the ASK section, but not CHAT.

Delma Childers
PhD Student, University of Edinburgh
I investigate how some of the smallest forms of life (bacteria) adapt and grow in space. [Click through to read full profile]
Active: Week 1 (4th–8th Jan), Week 2 (11th–15th Jan)

Floris Van Den Berg
ESA Research MD
For the next year I’ll live in Concordia Station, Antarctica, to do research for the European Space Agency. [Click through to read full profile]
Active: Week 1 (4th–8th Jan), Week 2 (11th–15th Jan)

Jean-François Clervoy
ESA Astronaut
Click here to read Jean-François’s full bio on the ESA website, or I’m an Astronaut profile here.
Active: Week 1 (4th–8th Jan) — Jean-François will be answering questions in the ASK section, but not CHAT.

Jon Scott
Space Medicine Office, ESA European Astronaut Centre
I am currently the Team Lead for the Medical Project and Technology Team in the Space Medicine Office at The European Space Agency’s (ESA) European Astronaut Centre (EAC). in Cologne, Germany. [Click through to read full profile]
Active: Week 1 (4th–8th Jan)

Julia Attias
PhD Student, King’s College London
I’m a PhD student at King’s College London researching into ways that will help to protect astronauts bodies in space. [Click through to read full profile]
Active: Week 3 (18th–22nd Jan)

Katie Hassell
Spacecraft Thermal Engineer, Airbus Defence and Space
I create computer models to help understand how heat moves around a spacecraft and how a spacecraft interacts thermally with its environment. [Click through to read full profile]
Active: Week 1 (4th–8th Jan), Week 2 (11th–15th Jan)

Michaela Musilová
Senior research advisor at the Slovak Organisation for Space Activities (SOSA) and Mission Control Space Services Inc.
[Click through to read full profile]
Active: Week 4 (25th–29th Jan)

Rochelle Velho
Junior Doctor and Medical Officer for the Austrian Space Forum
I am a junior doctor with an interest in space medicine. I am a medical officer for the Austrian Space Forum, OeWF, ESA in my spare time and recently participated in the AMADEE 15 mission. [Click through to read full profile]
Active: Week 3 (18th–22nd Jan), Week 4 (25th–29th Jan)

Shefali Sharma
Engineer, Oxford Space Systems
The first technology we will have in space next year is our AstroTube boom and this will be flying on a satellite of the size of a loaf of bread. [Click through to read full profile]
Active: Week 2 (11th–15th Jan), Week 3 (18th–22nd Jan)

Steve Price
Airbus Defence and Space
I’ve been involved with designing and building spacecraft for over 30 years. [Click through to read full profile]
Active: Week 2 (11th–15th Jan), Week 3 (18th–22nd Jan)