Awards
- Winner, Student Academic Choice Award for Best Supervison, Imperial College Union, 2014
- Honouree, Asteroid 7552 'Sephton' orbits at 2.6 AU, International Astronomical Union, 2006
External Positions
- Co-Chair, Mars Sample Return Temperature and Time Tiger Team, Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group, 2022 - 2022
- Member, Mars Sample Return Sample Safety Assessment Protocol Working Group, Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), 2018 - 2022
- Team Coordinator, Planetary Protection of Outer Solar System, EC/Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), 2016 - 2018
- Member, Returned Sample Science Board for the 2020 Mars Mission, NASA, 2015 - 2019
- Member, ESA Planetary Protection Working Group, European Space Agency, 2014
- Chair, UK Space Agency Space Exploration Advisory Committee (SEAC), UK Space Agency, 2013 - 2016
- Member, NASA MEPAG Science Definition Team for the 2020 Mars Rover, NASA Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group, 2013 - 2013
- Member, NASA/ESA MEPAG 2018 Joint Mars Rover MissionScience Working Group, NASA/ESA Mars Exploration Science Analysis Group, 2011 - 2011
- Member, STFC Astronomy Grants Panel, Science & Technology Facilities Council, 2011
- Co-Chair, NASA/ESA MEPAG Mars Sample Return End-2-End International Science Analysis Group, NASA/ESA Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group, 2010 - 2011
- Member, NASA/ESA MEPAG 2-Rover International Science Analysis Group, NASA/ESA Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group, 2009 - 2010
- Member, NASA/NRC Primitive Bodies Panel for the Planetary Science Decadal Survey 2013-2022, NASA/National Research Council, 2009 - 2010
- Member, UK Space Innovation and Growth Team, Department for Business, Innovation & Skills, 2009 - 2010
- Member, ESA Exploration, Science and Technology Advisory Group, European Space Agency, 2007 - 2010
- Member, UK Aurora Advisory Committee, UK Space Agency, 2007 - 2010
- Member, NERC Peer Review College, Natural Environment Research Council, 2006 - 2009
Links with Other Academic Bodies
- Associate Scientist, Natural History Museum
Editorial Boards
- Frontiers in Space Technologies, Specialty Chief Editor for Space Exploration | Frontiers in Space Technologies
- Astrobiology, Editorial Board