Noora Alsaeed currently is a planetary scientist the University of Colorado Boulder, where she received her Masters and PhD. She conducts groundbreaking research on Mars, helping scientists around the world better understand the planet’s atmosphere and water cycle.
Early in her career she worked for the Mohammed bin Rashid Space Center (MBRSC) program for Emirati STEM students, and spent a summer working alongside researchers at the Laboratory for Atmosphere and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado Boulder – a strategic education partner for the Emirates Mars Mission.
"I got the experience of working with a research community. I also worked at the research laboratory at the University of Colorado Boulder. By that time the Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) was already announced, I knew that I could come back to the UAE and work on Mars data in my home country. Therefore, I decided to focus my thesis on Mars’ atmosphere and surface,” Alsaeed said.