Luke Daly

School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow

Luke Daly is a Lecturer in Planetary Geoscience at the University of Glasgow. He looks at the very small to get at the very big by applying correlative microscopy and electron backscatter diffraction on extra-terrestrial rocks in order to understand what the Solar System's environment was like before there were planets, how asteroids form and evolve, how habitable worlds are made and how Mars' has evolved over time. He is on the science team for JAXA's Hayabusa2 mission to the asteroid Ryugu and Treasurer of the UK Fireball alliance that successfully recovered the Winchcombe meteorite in 2021 - The first meteorite to be recovered in the UK for 30 years.