PhD student at the University of Cambridge, in the Materials & Metallurgy department and analogue astronaut for the moon base project Asclepios.

Eleonore is a Mechanical Engineer with a specialisation in Materials and Process Engineering. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Materials Chemistry Group supervised by Prof. R Vasant Kumar. She also completed her M.Phil. by research program at the same department, working on corrosion resistant thermal barrier coatings for gas turbine applications. She studied material science and engineering at the technical university Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) before obtaining a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, with a specialization in materials and processes at the Zürich School of Engineering (ZHAW), both located in Switzerland. She wrote two bachelor thesis, the first on developing a tensile testing set-up for 3D printed open cell aluminium silicium foams, the second on characterising defects on Ti6Al4V aircraft turbine discs. She has so far studied in four languages, French, English, German and Swiss German.