Lewis Pinault

Dr Lewis Pinault is based at University College London's Centre for Planetary Sciences. After graduating from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in Political Science and Ocean Engineering, he was awarded the Fulbright scholarship to complete his Masters in Sea-Use Law and Technology at the London School of Economics. Following his work as an engineer and then a consultant, he became a NASA Space Grant Fellow and worked as a NASA subcontractor on asteroid origins and materials. In 1999 he was a NASA Space Generation delegate to the third UN Conference on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. He serves as Special Advisor to Airbus Ventures in Silicon Valley, and is a Director at Spire Global, whose satellite constellation and groundstation network today provides radio vehicle tracking and weather forecasting for Earth - and is well set to serve Mars globally too.