From Space Exploration to Understanding Earth Clement Albergel, Matthew Cook, Suzie Imber and Jean-Christophe Mauduit
Event details
In the run up to the Space Summit in Paris this year, our panel of experts from France and the UK explores the scientific, geopolitical, security, environmental, and societal issues and challenges related to space exploration.
Our speakers include Clement Albergel, Head of the Actionable Climate Information section at the European Space Agency (ESA); Matthew Cook, Head of Space Exploration at the UK Space Agency; Suzie Imber of the University of Leicester, who specialises in Space Weather; and Jean-Christophe Mauduit of University College London (UCL), an expert in science diplomacy.
This event is presented in collaboration with the French Embassy in the UK.
This event will take place live on Zoom Webinar. You will receive a link to join a couple of days before the event and a reminder an hour before. During the event, you can ask questions via a Q&A function, but audience cameras and microphones will remain muted throughout.
About the speakers
Clement Albergel is Head of the Actionable Climate Information section at the European Space Agency (ESA). His team focuses on implementing ESA’s climate program, the Climate Change Initiative (CCI), developing long term, global scale satellite-based time series of key components of the climate system. The climate-quality datasets produced by CCI are a major contribution to the evidence base used to understand climate change, which drives international action.
Matthew Cook is Head of Space Exploration at the UK Space Agency.
Suzie Imber is Professor of Planetary Science in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester. Suzie’s area of expertise is Space Weather, studying the interaction of the solar wind on the planets in our solar system.
Dr Jean-Christophe (JC) Mauduit is an Associate Professor of Science Diplomacy at University College London (UCL) in the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP). Prior to joining UCL, he was a Visiting Scholar at the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C. as well as an Associate Director at the Science Diplomacy Center at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University, Boston). He has worked for the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Nice, France) on the European Space Agency ‘Gaia’ satellite mission and for the California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, California) on the NASA Spitzer satellite mission. He was also a Project Officer for the International Astronomical Union (Cape Town, South Africa) focusing on scientific development issues. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union, the American Astronomical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Beyond UCL, he also served as the Co-Chair of the European Union Working Group on 'Building capacity for EU science diplomacy' and is also currently the co-Chair of the International Science Council Expert Group on science diplomacy.
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