birds and I would stay up all night feeding them worms!" In 2014, Green married stand-up comedian and maths communicator Matt Parker. The couple used wedding rings made of meteoric iron. Awards and honours In 2005, Green was a member of a team that won a Royal Television Society's Life Long Learning and Multimedia Award for a television show covering the transit of Venus, that enabled viewers to make their own Sun-Earth distance measurements using observations of the transit that year. Green has won awards for her contribution to public engagement with science. In 2009, she was awarded the Royal Society's Kohn Award for Excellence in Engaging the Public with Science, for her work engaging a diverse audience with science, and more specifically, for creating a culture of public engagement within her department. In 2010, she was named, in The Times October science supplement, Eureka, as one of the UK top ten best science educators under 40. In 2015, Green had a bust unveiled at the Royal Society in London, whilst being honoured at an event exploring the history of women and science writing. The bust was created and gifted to the Royal Society by Marcus Cornish. That year, Green was also awarded an Engineering and Physical Sciences Suffrage Science Award. In 2017, Green won the Lise Meitner Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics. Publications Green, Lucie M. (2018). The Origin, Early Evolution and Predictability of Solar Eruptions. Space Science Reviews. Springer. Green, Lucie M. (2009) Flux Rope Formation Preceding Coronal Mass Ejection Onset. The Astrophysical Journal. The American Astronomical Society. References External links Personal website @ MSSL Blog UCL profile 1970s births Date of birth missing (living people) Year of birth uncertain Living people People from Bedfordshire Alumni of the University of Sussex Alumni of University College London Academics of UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory 21st-century British astronomers Women astronomers English television presenters People educated at Dame Alice Harpur School Academics of Cardiff University British women scientists British astrophysicists