Dr Katherine Joy’s research takes her to extreme locations like Antarctica
Katherine Joy, who is based in the School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, has been awarded the 2013 Winton Capital Award for her pioneering work on lunar meteorites and rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts. Joy's research takes her to some of the world's most extreme environments, including Iceland and Antarctica. Her commitment and scientific prowess has already won her two prestigious post-doctoral fellowships - at Birkbeck College, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, and at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. Within five years of finishing her PhD she now holds a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at Manchester. Joy's work combines laboratory chemical analysis of Moon samples with the analysis of spacecraft data, most notably from the ESA Smart-1 mission. Her research has enabled her and colleagues to identify probable fragments of the lunar basin-forming 'impactors'. This now allows the source population of asteroidal impactors in the early Solar System to be better constrained and has led to a number of high-profile publications including a recent paper in the prestigious journal Science .
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