Emilie Royer

Dr. Royer obtained a B.S. in Geology and Astronomy from the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France in 2005, followed in 2006 by a M.S. in Geology and Astronomy from the University of Nantes, France. In 2007, she pursued her studies with a M.S. in Planetary Science from the Sorbonne University (Paris VI), France. She received her Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics in 2011 from the Sorbonne Université (Paris VI), where she studied the ultraviolet Nitric Oxide (NO) airglow emissions at Venus. As a postdoctoral scholar at Caltech-JPL, in 2012-2013, Dr. Royer’s started investigating the photometric properties of the icy satellite of Saturn. Between 2013 and 2019, she worked as a Research Scientist at LASP (the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Sapce Physics), at the University of Colorado-Boulder, as part of the Cassini-UVIS team, working on icy satellites surfaces and airglow processes at Titan. Her work on airglow also led her to be part of MAVEN Science team to analyze the NO emissions in the upper atmosphere of Mars. At PSI, she is pursuing her research interests in both, icy surfaces and upper atmospheres, by contunuing her work on Venus, Mars and the Saturn system.

Dr. Royer was an instructor at the University of Colorado-Boulder in the Astronomy and Planetary Science department from 2016 to 2019 and is now an Assistant Professor of Astrophysics at the California State University, Los Angeles. Dr. Royer is also currently serving as a member of the Venus Exploration Analysis Group (VEXAG), which has for mission to identify scientific priorities and future opportunities for the exploration of Venus and provide those findings to NASA Headquarters.