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

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's TV series Cosmos, which helped inspire her love of space. She earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology at Princeton University (

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) in 2006. As a Princeton student, she completed study-abroad programs at University of Seville and Universidad de León. During her junior year in Princeton, she was the editor-in-chief of ''Innovation'', the university's student science magazine. In the summer of 2004, she became a production intern at CNN en Español in New York. She earned a master's in journalism from Columbia University, where she focused on politics.

Career

Landau began to write and produce for CNN's website in 2007 as a Master's Fellow, and returned full-time in 2008. Here she co-founded the CNN science blog, Light Years. She covered a variety of topics including Pi Day. In 2012, Landau interviewed Scott Maxwell about the Curiosity rover at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

NASA career

In 2014, she became a media relations specialist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she led media strategy for Dawn (spacecraft),

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, NuSTAR,

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, Planck and Hershel. She led NASA's effort to share the TRAPPIST-1 exoplanet system with the world on February 22, 2017. In January 2018, she was appointed a Senior Storyteller at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In February 2020, she became a Senior Communications Specialist at NASA Headquarters.

Writing career

Landau has written for CNN,

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, New Scientist, Nautilus, Scientific American, Vice and The Wall Street Journal. Landau interviewed astronomer Virginia Trimble for Quanta Magazine in November 2019.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Landau, Elizabeth Living people American science writers Women science writers Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni Princeton University alumni American women journalists 21st-century American journalists 21st-century American women writers Year of birth missing (living people)