2018 Outstanding Young Alumnus Award Winner: Dr Jessie Christiansen
Channel: Griffith University
Date: 2018-09-09

Dr Jessie Christiansen is a research scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute based at Caltech. Working on NASA’s Kepler and TESS missions, her role is to detect, characterise and catalogue exoplanets (planets around other stars). She is an active mentor and educator, always seeking opportunities to foster women and under-represented minorities in the natural sciences. Jessie holds a Bachelor of Science with Advanced Studies (2003) from Griffith University.