Miss Jessie Hogan
Research Student
Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics
Biography
Professional biography
Currently, I am a PhD student within AstrobiologyOU and my project focuses on the signatures of salty ices forming in the plume environment at ocean worlds like Enceladus. I will be exploring the freezing process of salt-rich ices that are considered to best represent the ocean composition. This can help inform our understanding of how ocean material is transferred into the plume, and will thus help inform our interpretation of plume ejecta observed remotely by spacecraft. I have conducted vacuum chamber experiments to simulate the low pressure environments that such ice grains form in, to quantify the freezing behaviour, which I will then link to various compositional analyses.
2023 - present | The Open University | PhD - Astrobiology: "Signatures of Organic-Salt-Ice Interactions in the Plumes of Enceladus and Other Icy Moons"
2022 | European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC), European Space Agency (ESA) | Trainee in the Operations Development Division
2018 - 2021 | Birkbeck College, University of London | BSc - Planetary Science with Astronomy
Research interests
Main interests:
- Habitability of Icy Moons
- Cryovolcanism
- Biosignature detection
- Mission data analysis
Impact and engagement
Current co-chair of the Europlanet Early Career Network (EPEC) (2023 - present) - a volunteer-led organisation to support early-career researches within the European planetary community, through conference events, online resource provision, and forming connections with other researchers in the field.
