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Sokolowska Aleksandra, Dr.

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Please give us a personal quote or a quote of a famous person (e.g. of Albert Einstein) that describes you and your life/work.
“You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.” (Erica Jong)
Please describe your job in only one sentence and tell us what the most important goal of this work is.
The goal of my current work is to maximize our knowledge about the current and past Martian environment, which can be extracted from images returned by Martian missions, and physics-based computer modeling of the most ubiquitous landform on Mars, i.e. impact craters.
How did you get into this research/work field?
Half a year after the completion of my PhD, when I was working in a technology startup, I skimmed through BOB (aka the Big Orange Book – Introduction to Modern Astrophysics by Caroll and Ostlie), looking for inspiration. The chapter on terrestrial planets, especially Mars, gave me the rush of excitement. It wasn’t until 3 years later that I have decided to take a leap and pursue this further. I found a unique research idea and began searching for funding.
What would be the greatest discovery you would like to see in your life time?
That we are not alone in the Universe.
You work for the NCCR PlanetS. What do you think will the NCCR enable you to do you couldn’t do without it?
Funding from NCCR PlanetS allows me to set foot in the new research discipline and derive inspiration for future directions from other researchers exploring the Solar System.

 

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