Elizabeth Rosa Landau is an American science writer and communicator. She is a Senior Communications Specialist at NASA Headquarters.[1] She was a Senior Storyteller at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory previously.
Elizabeth Landau | |
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 Landau at the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program in 2017 | |
| Alma mater | Princeton University (BA) Columbia University (MA) |
| Employer | NASA |
| Known for | Science Communication |
| Website | lizlandau |
Education
editLandau grew up in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. As a child, she watched Carl Sagan's TV series Cosmos, which helped inspire her love of space.[2]
She earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology at Princeton University (magna cum laude) in 2006. As a Princeton student, she completed study-abroad programs at University of Seville and Universidad de León.[3] During her junior year in Princeton, she was the editor-in-chief of Innovation, the university's student science magazine.[2] In the summer of 2004, she became a production intern at CNN en Español in New York.[3] She earned a master's in journalism from Columbia University, where she focused on politics.[4]
Career
editLandau began to write and produce for CNN's website in 2007 as a Master's Fellow, and returned full-time in 2008.[5] Here she co-founded the CNN science blog, Light Years.[6] She covered a variety of topics including Pi Day.[7][8][9] In 2012, Landau interviewed Scott Maxwell about the Curiosity rover at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.[10]
NASA career
editIn 2014, she became a media relations specialist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she led media strategy for Dawn (spacecraft), Voyager, Spitzer, NuSTAR, WISE, Planck and Hershel.[11][12][13][14][15][16] She led NASA's effort to share the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet system with the world on February 22, 2017.[17][18] In January 2018, she was appointed a Senior Storyteller at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.[2] In February 2020, she became a Senior Communications Specialist at NASA Headquarters.[1]
Writing career
editLandau has written for CNN, Marie Claire, New Scientist, Nautilus, Scientific American, Vice and The Wall Street Journal.[19][20][21][22][23]
Landau interviewed astronomer Virginia Trimble for Quanta Magazine in November 2019.[24]
References
edit- ^ a b "Liz Landau on Twitter:"A bittersweet goodbye to my science village..."". Twitter. February 4, 2020. Retrieved March 3, 2020.
- ^ a b c "Solar System Exploration: NASA Science". Solar System Exploration: NASA Science. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ^ a b University, Princeton. "ARCHIVE - Office of International Programs". www.princeton.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-02-15. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ^ "Using Images To Pitch Your Story To Journalists - NASA & Former CNN Writer Elizabeth Landau". Best Pitch I Ever Got. 2015-04-01. Archived from the original on 2018-03-11. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ^ "Elizabeth Landau's Biography | Muck Rack". muckrack.com. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ^ "Light Years". lightyears.blogs.cnn.com. Archived from the original on 2018-03-19. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ^ Landau, Elizabeth. "Pi Day 2014 celebrated throughout the United States". CNN. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
- ^ Landau, Elizabeth. "On Pi Day, finding strength in numbers". CNN. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
- ^ Landau, Elizabeth. "On Pi Day, one number 'reeks of mystery'". CNN. Retrieved 2018-06-11.
- ^ Landau, Elizabeth. "His other car is on Mars". CNN. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ^ "Jet Propulsion Laboratory | News". www.jpl.nasa.gov. Archived from the original on 2021-08-02. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ^ "Contact". NuSTAR. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ^ "Dawn Mission | Contact Us". www.dawn-mission.org. Archived from the original on 2018-03-11. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ^ "What Do We Do If We Find Life? NASA Experts Answer Questions About Exoplanets". did you know?. 2017-06-23. Archived from the original on 2018-03-11. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ^ "News and Blogs | NASA/JPL Edu". NASA/JPL Edu. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ^ "54: Combining Two Passions Into One Awesome Career with Liz Landau of NASA". Spreaker. Archived from the original on 2018-03-11. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ^ "New clues to compositions of TRAPPIST-1 planets". Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ^ Perez, Martin (2017-08-11). "TRAPPIST-1 is Older Than Our Solar System". NASA. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ^ "Writing Portfolio – Liz Landau". www.lizlandau.com. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ^ "I'm 33 and I've Never Been Kissed". Marie Claire. 2016-05-26. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ^ "Roll Your Blunts and Peer Inside These Gemstones". Motherboard. 2017-06-26. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ^ "Stories by Elizabeth Landau". Scientific American. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ^ Landau, Elizabeth. "Scientists: Advertise Your Failures!". Scientific American Blog Network. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
- ^ Landau, Elizabeth (November 19, 2019). "Virginia Trimble Has Seen the Stars". Quanta Magazine. Retrieved 2020-03-03.