1. In 2013, Lucie Green became the first ever female presenter of The Sky at Night following the death of Sir Patrick Moore.
17 Facts About Lucie Green
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Lucie 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.
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Lucie Green attended Dame Alice Harpur School in Bedfordshire, gaining 9 GCSEs and 4 A-levels.
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Lucie Green graduated with a 2:1 Master of Physics degree in physics with astrophysics from the University of Sussex.
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In 2002, Lucie Green completed her PhD in solar physics at the MSSL, University College London.
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Lucie Green is a Professor of Physics and a Leverhulme Research Fellow, at MSSL.
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Lucie Green is member of UCL's Steering Committee for the Beacon for Public Engagement.
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Lucie Green is involved in the development of the Solar Orbiter, a Sun-observing satellite under development by the ESA.
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Lucie Green regularly appears on television and radio, most notably The Sky at Night, Stargazing Live, Stardate, Horizon, Xchange and The One Show.
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Since 2010, Lucie Green has appeared on and co-presented several episodes of Stargazing Live and has appeared on several episodes of the BBC Radio 4 show The Infinite Monkey Cage, discussing topics such as the end of the world and parallel universes.
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In 2013, Lucie Green hosted her own radio programme, Solar Max on BBC Radio 4 on the topic of space weather.
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In 2014, Lucie Green married stand-up comedian and maths communicator Matt Parker.
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In 2005, Lucie Green was a member of a team that won a Royal Television Society's Life Long Learning and Multimedia Award for a television show covering the transit of Venus, that enabled viewers to make their own Sun-Earth distance measurements using observations of the transit that year.
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Lucie Green has won awards for her contribution to public engagement with science.
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In 2015, Lucie Green had a bust unveiled at the Royal Society in London, whilst being honoured at an event exploring the history of women and science writing.
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That year, Lucie Green was awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Suffrage Science Award.
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In 2017, Lucie Green won the Lise Meitner Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics.