I’m a Scientist, Get me out of here! is back this March. Between Monday 9th and Friday 20th, students will be putting their questions to 6 scientists in the Space Zone.

For the latest news and announcements about the event, find us on Twitter @imascientist, and follow the hashtag, #IASUK.

Let’s meet the scientists and schools taking part…

The Space Zone is a themed zone supported by STFC.

Samantha Faircloth | PhD Student, Open University

I study chemical elements from moon rocks

Sam Frampton | PhD Student, University of Leicester

I am designing new, smaller satellites to visit and study other planets in our solar system.

Nicol Caplin | Science Coordinator for Astrobiology, ESA

I am the science coordinator for ESA astrobiology projects on the International Space Station

Lori-Ann Foley | PhD Student, Open University

I study the climate on Mars to see how the weather affects the surface, whether there was water and life there, and how the climate has changed over time.

Liam Perera | PhD Student, University of Edinburgh

I look at how life may survive on Saturn’s icy moon – Enceladus. I freeze microbes down to very cold temperatures to see at what happens.

David Sobral | Associate Professor, Lancaster University

I use the best telescopes in the World and in space as time-machines to discover and study galaxies across cosmic time, with one of the most famous being CR7, the brightest galaxy in the early Universe.

The Schools

• Aberlady Primary School, Aberlady
• Birkbeck Primary School, Sidcup
• Brompton-Westbrook Primary School, Gillingham
• Creswell Junior School, Worksop
• Gunton Primary Scsdemy, Lowestoft
• Holy Trinity Church of England VC Primary School, Weymouth
• Irchester Community Primary School, Wellingborough
• Mill O’Forest School, Aberdeenshire
• Richard Taylor Church of England Primary School, Harrogate
• St Peter’s Primary School, London
• Whittington CofE Primary School, Worcester
• Woodlawn School, Whitley Bay