Professor Monica Mary Grady CBE was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire in 1958. She is a renowned British space scientist and a leading expert on meteorites, and has made significant contributions to our understanding of the Solar System and the search for life beyond Earth.
Monica grew up in Leeds, with parents who were teachers, and attended the Notre Dame Collegiate School for Girls – now Notre Dame Catholic Sixth Form College. She was fascinated by space and geology, and gained a BSc at the University of Durham in 1979. She pursued this passion at Darwin College, Cambridge, attaining a PhD in the study of carbon in stony meteorites in 1982.
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