Louise Harra is an Irish physicist, born in Lurgan, County Armagh, Northern Ireland. She graduated from The Queen's University of Belfast with a BSc (Hons) in Applied Maths and Physics and a PhD in Physics. She was a professor of solar physics at University College, London's Mullard Space Science Laboratory[1][2] until 2019, when she moved to Switzerland to become Director of PMOD/WRC and affiliated professor at ETH-Zürich Institute of Particle Physics and Astrophysics.