UCL Space Domain Lecture by SATC member Ariel Ekblaw, on Monday 16th May 2022 at 13:00 – 14:00 BST

Link: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/91936529891

Further information about the lecture series can be found on the UCL website

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/research/domains/space/space-domain-events-news

Dr Ariel Ekblaw
Director, MIT Space Exploration Initiative Ariel Ekblaw is the founder and Director of the MIT Space Exploration Initiative (SEI), a team of over 50 graduate students, staff, and faculty actively prototyping the artifacts of our sci-fi space future. Founded in 2016, the Initiative includes a portfolio of 40+ research projects focused on opening access to life in space, and supports an accelerator-like R&D program for payload development and spaceflight testing across MIT and many outreach communities. For the Initiative, Ariel drives space-related research across science, engineering, art, and design, and leads an annually recurring cadence of parabolic flights, sub-orbital launches, and missions to the International Space Station. Ariel graduated with a B.S. in Physics, Mathematics and Philosophy from Yale University and designed a novel space architecture habitat for her MIT PhD in autonomously self-assembling space structures.