Nicola Fox

Nicola Fox
Nicola Fox in 2017
Born
Nicola Justine Fox

1968 (age 55–56)
Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England
EducationSt Francis' College, Letchworth
Alma materImperial College London (BSc, PhD)
University of Surrey (MS)
Known forHeliophysics
AwardsNASA Group Achievement Award ('98, '00)
Scientific career
InstitutionsNASA
Johns Hopkins University
ThesisIonospheric convection during substorms (1995)
Doctoral advisorStan Cowley[1]
Websitewww.nasa.gov/people/nicola-fox Edit this at Wikidata

Nicola Justine Fox (born 1968)[2] is the Associate Administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate. Appointed to the position in February 2023, she is therefore NASA's head of science.[3] She previously served as the Director of NASA's Heliophysics Science Division of the Goddard Space Flight Center and in the Applied Physics Laboratory at the Johns Hopkins University. Fox was the lead scientist for the Parker Solar Probe, and served as the Science and Operations Coordinator for the International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Science Initiative.

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