This award crowns an exceptional start to her career, with work developed for the SuperCam instrument, on board the Mars rover Perseverance, at Observatoire de Paris - PSL within the Laboratoire d’études spatiales et d’instrumentation en astrophysique, as part of a post-doc funded by IRIS OCAV.
A member of the Mars 2020 mission, Lucia Mandon is part of the team analyzing data collected by the Franco-American SuperCam instrument. Her aim is to characterize the composition of Martian rocks, with a view to possibly discovering traces of past life.
One of 52 winners
On November 16, 2023, the European Geosciences Union (EGU) named the 52 2024 winners of the Union Medals and Awards, Divisional Medals and Outstanding Early Career Awards. These individuals are recognized for their significant contributions to Earth, planetary and space sciences. They will be celebrated at the EGU 2024 General Assembly, to be held from April 14 to 19, 2024.