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US journalist and science communicator From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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Alma mater | Princeton University (BA) Columbia University (MA) |
Employer | NASA |
Known for | Science Communication |
Website | lizlandau |
Landau 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]
Landau 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]
In 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]
Landau 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]
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