US journalist and science communicator
Elizabeth Rosa Landau is an American science writer and communicator. She is a Senior Communications Specialist at NASA Headquarters. She was a Senior Storyteller at the NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory previously.
Education
Landau grew up in
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania . As a child, she watched
Carl Sagan 's TV series
Cosmos , which helped inspire her love of space.
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She earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology at
Princeton University (
magna cum laude ) in 2006. As a Princeton student, she completed study-abroad programs at
University of Seville and
Universidad de León .
[3] During her junior year in Princeton, she was the editor-in-chief of Innovation , the university's student science magazine.
[2] In the summer of 2004, she became a production intern at
CNN en Español in New York.
[3] She earned a master's in journalism from
Columbia University , where she focused on politics.
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Career
Landau began to write and produce for
CNN 's website in 2007 as a Master's Fellow, and returned full-time in 2008.
[5] Here she co-founded the
CNN science blog, Light Years.
[6] She covered a variety of topics including
Pi Day .
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[9] In 2012, Landau interviewed
Scott Maxwell about the
Curiosity rover at the NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
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NASA career
In 2014, she became a media relations specialist at the NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory , where she led media strategy for
Dawn (spacecraft) ,
Voyager ,
Spitzer ,
NuSTAR ,
WISE ,
Planck and
Hershel .
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[16] She led NASA's effort to share the
TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet system with the world on February 22, 2017.
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[18] In January 2018, she was appointed a Senior Storyteller at the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
[2] In February 2020, she became a Senior Communications Specialist at NASA Headquarters.
Writing career
Landau has written for
CNN ,
Marie Claire ,
New Scientist ,
Nautilus ,
Scientific American ,
Vice and
The Wall Street Journal .
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Landau interviewed astronomer
Virginia Trimble for Quanta Magazine in November 2019.
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References
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"Solar System Exploration: NASA Science" . Solar System Exploration: NASA Science . Retrieved 2018-03-10 .
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b University, Princeton.
"ARCHIVE - Office of International Programs" . www.princeton.edu . Archived from
the original on 2018-02-15. Retrieved 2018-03-10 .
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"Using Images To Pitch Your Story To Journalists - NASA & Former CNN Writer Elizabeth Landau" . Best Pitch I Ever Got . 2015-04-01. Archived from
the original on 2018-03-11. Retrieved 2018-03-10 .
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"Elizabeth Landau's Biography | Muck Rack" . muckrack.com . Retrieved 2018-03-10 .
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"Light Years" . lightyears.blogs.cnn.com . Archived from
the original on 2018-03-19. Retrieved 2018-03-10 .
^ Landau, Elizabeth.
"Pi Day 2014 celebrated throughout the United States" . CNN . Retrieved 2018-06-11 .
^ Landau, Elizabeth.
"On Pi Day, finding strength in numbers" . CNN . Retrieved 2018-06-11 .
^ Landau, Elizabeth.
"On Pi Day, one number 'reeks of mystery' " . CNN. Retrieved 2018-06-11 .
^ Landau, Elizabeth.
"His other car is on Mars" . CNN . Retrieved 2018-03-10 .
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"Jet Propulsion Laboratory | News" . www.jpl.nasa.gov . Archived from
the original on 2021-08-02. Retrieved 2018-03-10 .
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"Contact" . NuSTAR . Retrieved 2018-03-10 .
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"Dawn Mission | Contact Us" . www.dawn-mission.org . Archived from
the original on 2018-03-11. Retrieved 2018-03-10 .
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"What Do We Do If We Find Life? NASA Experts Answer Questions About Exoplanets" . did you know? . 2017-06-23. Archived from
the original on 2018-03-11. Retrieved 2018-03-10 .
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"News and Blogs | NASA/JPL Edu" . NASA/JPL Edu . Retrieved 2018-03-10 .
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"54: Combining Two Passions Into One Awesome Career with Liz Landau of NASA" . Spreaker . Archived from
the original on 2018-03-11. Retrieved 2018-03-10 .
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"New clues to compositions of TRAPPIST-1 planets" . Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System . Retrieved 2018-03-10 .
^ Perez, Martin (2017-08-11).
"TRAPPIST-1 is Older Than Our Solar System" . NASA . Retrieved 2018-03-10 .
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"Writing Portfolio – Liz Landau" . www.lizlandau.com . Retrieved 2018-03-10 .
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"I'm 33 and I've Never Been Kissed" . Marie Claire . 2016-05-26. Retrieved 2018-03-10 .
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"Roll Your Blunts and Peer Inside These Gemstones" . Motherboard . 2017-06-26. Retrieved 2018-03-10 .
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"Stories by Elizabeth Landau" . Scientific American . Retrieved 2018-03-10 .
^ Landau, Elizabeth.
"Scientists: Advertise Your Failures!" . Scientific American Blog Network . Retrieved 2018-03-10 .
^ Landau, Elizabeth (November 19, 2019).
"Virginia Trimble Has Seen the Stars" .
Quanta Magazine . Retrieved 2020-03-03 .
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