15 Facts About Rosemary Coogan

Rosemary Theresa Coogan was born on 1991 and is an astrophysicist and UK astronaut from Northern Ireland.

Rosemary Coogan was involved with military training from a young age.

Rosemary Coogan was trained as a petty officer with the Sea Cadets.

Rosemary Coogan was later promoted to Midshipman of the Royal Naval Reserve.

Rosemary Coogan studied for her undergraduate degree in Physics at Durham University, graduating in 2013.

Rosemary Coogan remained in Durham for her master's research, where she studied gamma-ray astronomy with Paula Chadwick.

Rosemary Coogan worked on data science during a work placement at Senseye.

Rosemary Coogan worked as a simulation support engineer to develop machine learning models to detect anomalies from robotic sensors.

Rosemary Coogan moved to the University of Sussex as a doctoral researcher, studying galaxy evolution and the activity of active galactic nuclei.

Rosemary Coogan found that dense cluster environment increases the star formation efficiency, which she attributed to the high number of mergers, interactions and the active galactic nuclei.

Rosemary Coogan moved to the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics.

In 2022, Rosemary Coogan was appointed to the CNES, where she works on Euclid and James Webb Space Telescope.

In 2022, Rosemary Coogan was selected by the European Astronaut Corps to join the 2022 European Space Agency Astronaut Group.

Rosemary Coogan said that she applied to the space programme because she wanted to get "hands-on" with contributing the most that we can from space.

Rosemary Coogan completed ESA's Basic Training curriculum at the European Astronaut Centre, and graduated on the 22nd of April 2024 alongside her classmates from "The Hoppers" group.