Dr Niamh Shaw holds a PhD in Science and a Masters/Bachelor in Engineering from University College Dublin, and trained in science communication at Cambridge. Over 15+ years she has built an international platform reporting on human spaceflight, including live coverage of the Artemis II launch, for The Irish Times, BBC, Sky News and RTÉ, reaching international audiences across Ireland, the UK and Europe. She holds NASA Kennedy Space Center foreign national press credentials, is an ESA Champion for Education, a Fellow of the Explorers Club, and a Fellow of Engineers Ireland. Alongside her media and speaking work, Niamh founded Town Scientist, a mission-driven community science initiative that has run rocket launch programmes, astronaut and expert talks, and a mobile planetarium visit for families across Louth and Laois. She speaks regularly to corporate, education and public audiences on space exploration & scientific curiosity and has big ambitions to share the view of Earth from space.