Episode 10: Nicky Fox - Trailblazer of Trans-disciplinary at NASA

Nicky Fox has pioneered the study of the space around us and our sun, and now she focuses on unifying all of NASA's science divisions and, in general, empowering everyone she meets.

How apt that we recorded this episode at the Goddard Space Flight Center, the spot of the Director of NASA’s Heliophysics Science Division, Dr. Nicky Fox’s, FIRST experience and beginning of a long storied trajectory with NASA, to record an episode of Origins.

The word inspiring is thrown around a bit carelessly, in my opinion, so it is with the utmost respect for the term that I say that Nicky Fox is an inspiration. Her life has grown from studies of physics and telecommunications and satellite engineering at the Imperial College in London and the University of Surrey to an intimidatingly productive career at NASA.

Nicky has pioneered the study of Heliophysics, serving roles, among many others, as the operations scientist for the Polar mission, Science and Operations coordinator for the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Science Initiative, Deputy Project Scientist for the Van Allen Probes mission, and the project scientist for the wonderful Parker Solar Probe mission.

She has now moved to NASA Headquarters where, as the Director of the entire Heliophysics Science Division, she leads the administration's efforts for discovery of our interactions with the Sun.

Nicky is one of the most eloquent, impactful, and fun inaugurators of ideas that space physics has known. I’m delighted to be sitting in this place, an epicenter of curiosity, and an integral piece in so many profound lives, with Dr. Nicky Fox.

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Ryan McGranaghan