Elizabeth Landau

Short description: US journalist and science communicator

Elizabeth Landau

Landau at the NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program in 2017

Alma mater| Princeton University (AB)
Columbia University (MA)
Employer| NASA
Known for| Science Communication
Website| lizlandau.com

Elizabeth Rosa Landau is an American science writer and communicator. She is a Senior Communications Specialist at NASA Headquarters.[1] She was a Senior Storyteller at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory previously.

## Contents

* 1 Education
* 2 Career
* 2.1 NASA career
* 2.2 Writing career
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## 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.[2]

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.[4]

## 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.[7][8][9] In 2012, Landau interviewed Scott Maxwell about the Curiosity rover at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.[10]

### 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.[11][12][13][14][15][16] She led NASA's effort to share the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet system with the world on February 22, 2017.[17][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.[1]

### Writing career

Landau has written for CNN, Marie Claire, New Scientist, Nautilus, Scientific American, Vice and The Wall Street Journal .[19][20][21][22][23]

Landau interviewed astronomer Virginia Trimble for Quanta Magazine in November 2019.[24]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Liz Landau on Twitter:"A bittersweet goodbye to my science village..."". February 4, 2020. https://twitter.com/lizlandau/status/1224716627817586689.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Solar System Exploration: NASA Science". https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/people/4158/elizabeth-landau/.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 University, Princeton. "ARCHIVE - Office of International Programs". https://www.princeton.edu/oip/announcements/archive/index.xml?id=16304.
4. ↑ "Using Images To Pitch Your Story To Journalists - NASA & Former CNN Writer Elizabeth Landau" (in en-US). Best Pitch I Ever Got. 2015-04-01. https://www.bestpitchievergot.com/elizabeth-landau/.
5. ↑ "Elizabeth Landau's Biography | Muck Rack" (in en). https://muckrack.com/lizlandau/bio.
6. ↑ "Light Years" (in en). http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/.
7. ↑ Landau, Elizabeth. "Pi Day 2014 celebrated throughout the United States". CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2014/03/14/tech/innovation/pi-day-math-celebrations/index.html.
8. ↑ Landau, Elizabeth. "On Pi Day, finding strength in numbers". CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2013/03/14/health/pi-day-memorizing-numbers/index.html.
9. ↑ Landau, Elizabeth. "On Pi Day, one number 'reeks of mystery'" (in en). CNN. http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/12/pi.day.math/index.html.
10. ↑ Landau, Elizabeth. "His other car is on Mars". CNN. https://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/04/us/mars-rover-scott-maxwell/.
11. ↑ "Jet Propulsion Laboratory | News". https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/m/news/news.php?feature=4508#.WqQ94pPFLy8.
12. ↑ "Contact". https://www.nustar.caltech.edu/page/contact.
13. ↑ "Dawn Mission | Contact Us". http://www.dawn-mission.org/contact/.
14. ↑ "What Do We Do If We Find Life? NASA Experts Answer Questions About Exoplanets" (in en-US). did you know?. 2017-06-23. https://didyouknowfacts.com/nasa-experts-q-a-exoplanets/.
15. ↑ "News and Blogs | NASA/JPL Edu". NASA/JPL Edu. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/news/author/elizabeth-landau/.
16. ↑ "54: Combining Two Passions Into One Awesome Career with Liz Landau of NASA" (in en). Spreaker. https://www.spreaker.com/user/7970858/54-combining-two-passions-into-one-aweso.
17. ↑ "New clues to compositions of TRAPPIST-1 planets". Exoplanet Exploration: Planets Beyond our Solar System. https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1481/new-clues-to-compositions-of-trappist-1-planets/.
18. ↑ Perez, Martin (2017-08-11). "TRAPPIST-1 is Older Than Our Solar System" (in en). NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/trappist-1-is-older-than-our-solar-system.
19. ↑ "Writing Portfolio – Liz Landau" (in en-US). http://www.lizlandau.com/writing-samples/.
20. ↑ "I'm 33 and I've Never Been Kissed" (in en-US). Marie Claire. 2016-05-26. https://www.marieclaire.com/sex-love/a20701/im-33-and-ive-never-been-kissed/.
21. ↑ "Roll Your Blunts and Peer Inside These Gemstones" (in en-us). Motherboard. 2017-06-26. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/paynng/roll-your-blunts-and-peer-inside-these-gemstones.
22. ↑ "Stories by Elizabeth Landau" (in en). Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/author/elizabeth-landau/.
23. ↑ Landau, Elizabeth. "Scientists: Advertise Your Failures!" (in en). Scientific American Blog Network. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/scientists-advertise-your-failures/.
24. ↑ Landau, Elizabeth (November 19, 2019). "Virginia Trimble Has Seen the Stars" (in en). Quanta Magazine. https://www.quantamagazine.org/virginia-trimble-has-seen-the-stars-20191111/.

## External links

* Elizabeth Landau on Twitter

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