Sarah Kendrew, European Space Agency
Sarah is an Astronomer and Instrument Scientist working for the European Space Agency in Baltimore, MD, as member of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mission office. JWST is a major next-generation infrared space telescope to be launched in 2021, built as a collaboration between the US, European and Canadian Space Agencies (NASA/ESA/CSA). Sarah specifically works on JWST's mid-infrared instrument MIRI, and has been a member of the European MIRI consortium since 2007.
She has a PhD in Physics from University College London (2006), and has previously held positions at the University of Leiden, Netherlands (2007-2010), the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany (2010-2013), and the University of Oxford, UK (2013-2016).