Dr Lewis Pinault is based at University College London's Centre for Planetary Sciences. After graduating from Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in Political Science and Ocean Engineering, he was awarded the Fulbright scholarship to study Sea-Use Law and Technology at the London School of Economics. Following his work as an engineer and then a consultant, he became a NASA Space Grant Fellow and worked as a NASA subcontractor on asteroid origins and materials. In 1999 he was a NASA delegate to the third UN Conference on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space. He works with and advises the teams behind Lunar Mission One and the Airbus Group on Aerospace Innovation.