Professor Giovanna Tinetti is Vice Dean (Research) for the Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences, King’s College London.

Professor Tinetti is the Principal Investigator of the European Space Agency’s Ariel - the only space telescope undertaking a comprehensive survey of exoplanets in a wide variety of environments, which will launch in 2029. She is co-founder and co-director of the London Centre for Space Exochemistry Data. She is also co-founder and co-director of Blue Skies Space Ltd, which is developing a new class of satellites to provide high-quality data to the global scientific community.

Giovanna has a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Turin. During her career she has worked at Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, at the Institute of Astrophysics in Paris, and was the ‘Enrico Fermi’ Chair at La Sapienza, University of Rome. She joined UCL in 2007 as a Royal Society University Research Fellow and she has progressed her career there as Professor of Astrophysics and Head of Astrophysics Group.

She has authored and co-authored over 300 research publications. These include the paper with the highest altmetric score among Physical Sciences in 2019. She has delivered over 350 talks, seminars and public lectures internationally.

Research Interests

• Extrasolar planets
• Space science
• Molecular spectroscopy
• Atmospheric science
• Data science

Professor Tinetti has been working at the forefront of exoplanetary science investigations, from the observations and interpretation of exoplanet atmospheres to leading multinational space missions dedicated to the observations of planets in the galaxy. Her interests and expertise cover molecular spectroscopy, atmospheric modelling and advanced data-science techniques to analyse exoplanetary data.