Profile
Queenie Chan
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About Me:
I am a planetary scientist and also a senior lecturer at Royal Holloway University of London. I study rocks coming from outer space ☄️🧪🌠!
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Other than playing with my children 👶(and yes that’s a hobby too), I enjoy exploring different board games with friends and family. I also like watching anime, and I learned many interesting Japanese words from that. And Lego, I bought Lego for my kids so I can play.
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My pronouns are:
she/her
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My Work:
I enjoy meteoritic research “not because they are easy, but because they are hard”, it’s exciting to be involved in this amazing venture 😍. My research allows me to utilise rare skills to unfold mysteries about outer space objects, and to look back in time to understand what it was like at the birth of our solar system. I also love to be involved in space missions 🚀, crushing and powdering materials brought back to Earth from foreign worlds👾, let it be the Moon, an asteroid, a comet, the planet Mars.
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I am a lecturer in the Department of Earth Sciences at Royal Holloway University of London. I study how life’s simple building blocks are turned into increasingly complex molecules that ultimately yield life. It is difficult to refine the scope of my research into a single discipline, so I describe myself as a meteoriticist, planetary scientist, astrobiologist, cosmochemist, depending on the occasion. As my research involves the study of extraterrestrial organic matter, most of my research time is spent on being a germophobe – I am very wary of keeping my lab space spotless, and being extremely critical at identifying extraterrestrial matter from terrestrial contamination. I also study tiny space dust and extraterrestrial samples returned to Earth by space missions.
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What I'd do with the prize money:
The prize money will support us to produce meteorite sampling kits to be distributed to the public when a potential meteorite is identified 👓.
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Education:
I completed my PhD degree (Planetary Science / Astrobiology) at Imperial College London
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Qualifications:
BSc (1st); PhD
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Work History:
2020 Lecturer at Royal Holloway University of London: UK
2016 Postdoctoral Research Associate at Open University: UK
2013 Postdoctoral Fellow at NASA Johnson Space Center: Texas US
2012 Postdoctoral Fellow at Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology: Japan
2012 Nature Conservation Officer at the Agriculture Fisheries and Conservation Department: Hong Kong
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Current Job:
Senior Lecturer
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Employer:
Royal Holloway University of London
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My Interview
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What did you want to be after you left school?
I wanted to be someone who could make the world a better place
Were you ever in trouble at school?
I think so... who weren't?
If you weren't doing this job, what would you choose instead?
Veterinarian 🐶😺🐊
Who is your favourite singer or band?
Mr. Children (Japan)
What's your favourite food?
Sushi
If you had 3 wishes for yourself what would they be? - be honest!
I wish I have more wishes
Tell us a joke.
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