Monica Grady

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Monica Grady

Monica Mary Grady , CBE (born July 15, 1958 in Leeds , West Yorkshire ) is a British astronomer and one of the leading British space researchers , who is known for her work on meteorites . She is Professor of Planetary and Space Research at the Open University .

Life

Monica Grady was born in Leeds on July 15, 1958, the oldest of eight children. Her younger sister, Ruth Grady, is a lecturer in microbiology at the University of Manchester .

She completed her studies from 1976 to 1979 at the University of Durham in the fields of chemistry and geology. She was a member of St Aidan's College, University of Durham. Her postgraduate studies followed from 1979 to 1983 at the University of Cambridge . Your Ph.D. made them about carbon in meteorites. She then worked at the Open University from 1983 to 1991 until she started at the Institute of Mineralogy at the Natural History Museum in London . There she was initially responsible as a research assistant for the meteorites division, then as head of the department for meteorites and cosmic mineralogy. In 2001, she worked as a Senior Visiting Research Fellow of the Planetary and Space Sciences Research Institute of the Open University and from 2004 to 2007 as an honorary professor in the Department of Earth Sciences of the University College London . Since 2005 she has held the professorship for planetary and space research at the Open University.

Grady was president of the Meteoritical Society . She is a member of EURO-CARES (European Curation of Astromaterials Returned from Exploration of Space) , an EU-funded Horizon 2020 project with the aim of developing a roadmap for a European facility to collect samples from space exploration missions to asteroids, Mars , the moon and comets captured.

She took part in some BBC documentaries , such as the series Horizon , The Comet's Tale (2007) and A Very British Apocalypse (2007) .

Personal

Monica Grady is married to Ian Wright and they have one son. Wright is also a professor at the Open University and is one of the leading scientists on the Rosetta mission and the Beagle 2 mission to Mars.

Honors

The asteroid (4731) was named Monicagrady after her , and in 2012 she was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her services to space exploration .

Publications (selection)

List of publications:

  • Catalog of Meteorites , 2000, Cambridge University Press.
  • Search for Life , 2001, Natural History Museum.
  • Astrobiology , 2001, Smithsonian Books.
  • Atlas of Meteorites (with G. Pratesi and V. Moggi Cecchi), 2013, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0521840354

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Grady, MM (Monica M.) - LC Linked Data Service | Library of Congress. In: loc.gov. id.loc.gov, accessed August 7, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b Monica Grady. In: theconversation.com. The Conversation, accessed August 7, 2016 .
  3. ^ A b Institute of Advanced Study: Professor Monica Grady - Durham University. In: ac.uk. www.dur.ac.uk, accessed on August 7, 2016 .
  4. ↑ webmaster@meteoriticalsociety.org: Council - The Meteoritical Society. In: meteoriticalsociety.org. Retrieved August 7, 2016 .
  5. ↑ EURO-CARES. In: euro-cares.eu. www.euro-cares.eu, accessed on August 7, 2016 .
  6. ^ The London Gazette, June 16, 2012 Supplement: 60173, page 7, accessed August 7, 2016
  7. ↑ Publication list by Monica Grady ( Memento of the original from March 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / monicamgrady.com
personal data
SURNAME Grady, Monica
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grady, Monica Mary (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British astronomer and meteorite researcher
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeds , West Yorkshire