Suzanne Imber  Suzanne (Suzie) Imber (born May 1983) is a Planetary Scientist, and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Students) at the University of Leicester. She was the winner of the 2017 BBC Two television program "Astronauts, Do You Have What It Takes?". Suzie was born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. She attended Berkhamsted School in Hertfordshire, and grew up with stories of 20th-century exploration in the Antarctic - a place she still dreams of visiting one day. One highlight of her school years was winning the Lacrosse National Championships in 2000. She studied a 4-year physics degree at Imperial College London, from where she graduated with a first class honours in 2005. She captained the University of London Lacrosse team and went on to play for the England under-21s. She undertook two internships at NASA during her time at Imperial, working in the Heliophysics Division at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, which steered her in the direction of planetary science. She undertook a PhD, (completed in 2008) entitled, "Auroral and Ionospheric Flow Measurements of Magnetopause Reconnection during Intervals of Northward Interplanetary Magnetic Field", at the University of Leicester. Suzie joined the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland in 2008 as a NASA research scientist. Here she studied 'Space Weather', contributing to the understanding of how energy and momentum from the solar wind influence the environments of the Earth and Mercury, using data from NASA and ESA spacecraft combined with ground-based observations. Her supervisor and mentor was Professor Jim Slavin, who was involved with the MESSENGER mission to Mercury. In 2011 she returned to the University of Leicester as a postdoctoral Research Associate. In 2014 she was awarded a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship, "Rough Winds do Shake the Magnetosphere of Mercury". Suzie is a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, as well as the only UK member of NASA's MESSENGER Science Team, in recognition of her work studying Mercury's magnetosphere. She is a co-investigator on the Mercury Imaging X-ray Spectrometer (MIXS), an instrument designed and built at the University of Leicester, currently on board the European Space Agency's next Mercury mission, BepiColombo, which launched on 19 October 2018. This instrument is designed to determine the composition of the surface of Mercury in unprecedented detail (aimed at resolving key questions about Mercury's formation and evolution), and will also measure Mercury's x-ray aurora, a phenomenon recently discovered by Suzie's research team studying the magnetosphere of Mercury.