Lucie Green

Lucinda "Lucie" Green (born 1975

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.

Early life and education Green was born in . She attended Dame Alice Harpur School in Bedfordshire, gaining 9 GCSEs and 4 A-levels.

Career Images captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory showing a solar eclipse followed by a M6.6 solar flare. After gaining her PhD, she moved to Cardiff University's School of Physics and Astronomy and became the Project Co-ordinator of the Faulkes Telescope Project. The project enables schools to have remote use of two two-metre class telescopes located in Hawaii (Faulkes Telescope North in Hawaii) and Australia (Faulkes Telescope South in Australia).

Green is a Professor of Physics and a Leverhulme Research Fellow (previously the Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow), at MSSL. Her current work focuses on the pattern of magnetic fields in the Sun's atmosphere, which sporadically erupt to form a coronal mass ejection; how these relate to geomagnetic activity and what this means for those living on the Earth.

Solar Orbiter Green is involved in the development of the Solar Orbiter, a Sun-observing satellite under development by the ESA.

Media appearances Green regularly appears on television and radio, most notably The Sky at Night, Stargazing Live, Stardate, Horizon, Xchange and The One Show. Her radio programmes include The Infinite Monkey Cage, Saturday Live and PM (BBC Radio 4), Material World, Slooh Radio (US), Newshour (BBC World Service), Live Drive and Bacon's Theory (BBC 5 Live), and The Butcher's Apron and Nick Ferrari (LBC). which she co-presented with Adam Hart-Davis, covering the European Space Agency successfully landing the Huygens probe on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, which she co-presented with Brian Cox, covering NASA successfully colliding a probe into the side of comet Tempel 1 in an effort to learn more about the origins of the Solar System.

In 2013, Green hosted her own radio programme, Solar Max on BBC Radio 4 on the topic of space weather. The programme explained how emissions from the sun can cause changes in the Earth's magnetic field and upper atmosphere, and what the implications of these are for the UK. The couple used wedding rings made of meteoric iron.

Green has won awards for her contribution to public engagement with science. In 2009, she was awarded the Royal Society's Kohn Award for Excellence in Engaging the Public with Science, for her work engaging a diverse audience with science, and more specifically, for creating a culture of public engagement within her department.

In 2010, she was named, in The Times October science supplement, Eureka, as one of the UK top ten best science educators under 40. That year, Green was also awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Suffrage Science Award.

In 2017, Green won the Lise Meitner Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics.

In 2025, the main belt asteroid was named in her honour.

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