Lucie Green

Lucie Green
Green talking at Bright Club in London, November 2011
Born	Lucie M. Green c.1975 Bedfordshire, England, UK
Residence	Guildford, Surrey
Education	Dame Alice Harpur School
Alma mater	University of Sussex University College London
Occupation	Science Communicator
Employer	Mullard Space Science Laboratory
Television	Presenter, The Sky at Night
Board member of	European Solar Physics Division of the European Physical Society Science Museum
Awards	Kohn Award (2009)
Website	Personal website @ MSSL

Lucie Green (born c.1975) is a British science communicator and solar researcher. Since 2005 Green has been a Royal Society University Research Fellow (previously the Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow) at Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL) of the University College London (UCL). Green runs MSSL's public engagement programme and sits on the board of the European Solar Physics Division (ESPD) of the European Physical Society and the advisory board of the Science Museum.

An award winning science writer, television and radio presenter and science communicator, Green has a passion for engaging the public with space science and astronomy. Perhaps best known for her work on The Sky at Night, in 2013 Green became the show's first ever female presenter following the death of Sir Patrick Moore.

Green's research focuses primarily on the atmospheric activities of the Sun, particularly coronal mass ejections and the changes in the Sun's magnetic field which triggers them.

After an early interest in the care of animals, Green studied at Dame Alice Harpur School in Bedfordshire gaining 9 GCSEs and 4 A-levels and 1 AS, including art and physics.

She has frequently returned to her old school to discuss her research. Fiona Clements, Green's physics teacher at the school, has said, “She is a great advocate for young women in science and we are proud that she continues to remember the school by returning to talk about her research to pupils."

"I always liked physics from an early age while I was at school. That was my passion: problem solving or asking questions and then finding out ways of answering those questions. But I never had a burning ambition of being a space scientist, and I wasn’t even into amateur astronomy [at that time]".

After completing her A-levels, Green took a year out during which time she studied art. Then after deciding to pursue physics, Green completed her undergraduate Master of Physics degree in Physics with Astrophysics at the University of Sussex, graduating with a 2:1. Whilst there, encouraged by visits to the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Green decided to do a PhD in solar physics at MSSL which she completed in 2002.