Chimira Andres

Outreach Officer, Instructor

Pronouns: she/her/hers

Chimira (pronounced like “Shakira” but with an “m”) is a planetary scientist and Ph.D. researcher with the Department of Earth and Space Science and Engineering at York University, Canada and the Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géosciences in Nantes Université, France. While her school background is in glacial sedimentology, geology/geophysics, and satellite remote sensing, her current research focuses on the movement of ice in glacial and periglacial (permafrost) environments on Mars and in the Canadian High Arctic and how ice shapes the landscape overtime. She uses these cold environments on Earth as a basis of comparison (planetary analogues) to cold environments not only on Mars, but the Moon and beyond!

Chimira is a huge advocate for STE(A)M Education, science communication, and outreach. She recently worked with the Youth-STEM Team at the Canadian Space Agency and has also previously worked at the European Space Agency with the ESA Education STEM Didactics Team.

FUN FACT: She has been dancing ballet, pointe, contemporary, jazz, etc since the age of 5 years old!