So I'm one of the engineering project managers
on the food production team
at the Canadian Space Agency.
My job really is to help us develop
the technologies
that will use to feed astronauts
on the lunar surface
and then maybe beyond
if we get to that point.
So I study bio resource engineering
at McGill University,
and that's where I did my undergrad.
I'm actually currently a graduate student
at the University of Guelph Controlled Environment Systems Research Facility,
and I’m doing my master’s in controlled environment agriculture there.
I've been able to work in labs
in Canadian universities
studying how we might cultivate plants
in space,
studying how different LED wavelengths target plants and are able to optimize their growth
and seeing how we might be able to use
moon dust to help plants grow as well.
So I've had a very long
and busy career path to get here,
but I am overjoyed that it's been able to bring me where I am today,
that everything can help
inform the work that we do here.