Our team in action

Emily Baldwin and Sean Blair at the ESA Hera stall during the Asteroid Day Festival in Cercle Cité, Luxembourg in June 2026
Midori Fuchs, Dan Thisdell and Rosa Jesse during ILA Berlin in June 2026 providing English-language coverage for DLR
Peter Bickerton reporting from Oxford at the ESA-JAXA EarthCARE Science and Validation Workshop in June 2026
Marta Curado Avelar, EO editor, attends the 3rd ESA CommEO conference in Seville in May 2026
Midori Fuchs at Hannover Messe in April 2026, helping the DLR team as they captured fresh footage social media
Peter Bickerton at the AEOLUS conference, exploring the collaborations from Aeolus to EarthCARE, sharing poetry and providing coverage for ESA
Lorena Martino, Roberta Cristofanelli and Oderica Lusi at the ESA-ESRIN School Days in April 2026
Marie Deschamps attends the Artemis II launch in April 2026, providing coverage for ESA’s Human & Robotic Exploration activities
Camilla Francis presenting the mini mobile curation lab at the ESA stand during the Star Trek Lates event in London, March 2026
Midori Fuchs visiting DLR in Cologne in March 2026 to film content and join in-person meetings
Laylan Saadaldin attends the SXSW EDU 2026 for a screening of ‘The Worst That Can Happen’, which she produced for ESA’s Education Office
EJR-Quartz’s Rosa Jesse, Senior Editor & Team Lead for the German Aerospace Center, while editing the DLR magazine. Image credit: Sonny Malhotra
Barbara Pinho attending The ESA Digital Twin Earth Components: Open Science Meeting 2026 at ESA-ESRIN in February 2025
Adrian Suhanea and Laylan Saadaldin at OEB 2025 in Berlin in December 2025
Oderica Lusi attends a meeting with astronaut Luca Parmitano at ESRIN in November 2025
Sarah Leach in Nicosia at the 6th COSPAR Symposium, providing coverage for their social media channels
Chiara Forin at ESA’s event for the launch of the Copernicus Sentinel-1D satellite in November 2025
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Jans Henke and Nicole Shearer at the Gooiland Theater in Hilversum for the Information Design Conference 2025 in October
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Laylan Saadaldin and Adrian Suhanea with the ESA Education team during the ESA ESTEC Open Days in October 2025
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Rute Pereira and Julien Harrod at the Space Transportation stand during the ESA ESTEC Open Days
Oderica Lusi and Roberta Cristofanelli working for ESA Communications during the ESRIN Open Day in September 2025
Maria Rubal attends Jammertest in Andoya, Norway in September 2025, capturing the action for ESA’s social media
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Peter Bickerton attends Space East’s ‘Unlocking Earth Observation for Sustainability’ event in September 2025
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Peter Bickerton shares details about ESA’s Earth Explorers in a multi-sector panel, spreading awareness about Earth Observation during Space East’s event in Norwich (Credit: Space East)
Claudia Garritano travels to Bordeaux, France in September 2025, to take part in a parabolic flight campaign with science content creators (Credit: ESA/Novespace-L.Theillet)
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We celebrate our colours by the De Valk windmill during Pride Leiden on 6 September 2025, as one of the event’s proud sponsors
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Mali Cecere provides a live voiceover from the technical booth during ESA’s Nav30 event in September 2025
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Saskia Cornet and Rosa Jesse in Cologne for a meeting with the DLR team to discuss social media strategy in August 2025
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Camilla Francis and Declan Perry join the ESA team during the UK Space Conference in July 2025 (Credit: ESA BASS)
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Chiara Forin and Bija Knowles attend the MTG-S1 & Sentinel-4 mission launch event for ESA in July 2025 at EUMETSAT’s headquarters in Darmstadt
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Barbara Pinho explains the Copernicus Contributing Missions (CCM) Activity at the ESA booth during LPS 2025
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Mali Cecere gives a rundown of the editorial work behind ESA EO Science Missions at the ESA booth during LPS 2025
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Rosa Jesse reports live from the show floor for DLR at the International Paris Airshow in Le Bourget in June 2025
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Roberta Cristofanelli and Oderica Lusi with the ESA team at the International Paris Airshow 2025 in Le Bourget (Credit: ESA)
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Stefan Lüders supports image distribution for ESA at the International Paris Airshow 2025 in Le Bourget
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Maria Rubal pays a visit to OHB’s clean room to witness the testing of Galileo satellites in March 2025 (Credit: Design & Data)
The EJR-Quartz team celebrating our 25 year anniversary in Tuscany, September 2024
Our team members enjoying a tour of Tuscany in September 2024
Arianna Ricchiuti and Laylan Saadaldin running the lobby on the online platform, welcoming teachers and giving them an overview of the ESA Teach with Space Online Conference, July 2023
Laylan Saadaldin, our Education Producer for ESA WEB TV at the ESA Teach with Space Online Conference, July 2023
Juliana Schmidt, supporting ESA Education Web and Social Media, together with Paxi at the ESA Teach with Space Online Conference, July 2023
Our editor Sara Kehrer participated in the Online Communication Awards 2023 held in Berlin with DLR
Susan Kelly and Declan Perry working on Earth Observation success stories
DLR team got together to discuss future plans
Sara Kehrer trying out the new EJR-Quartz hoodie
Sarah Leach, Sara Kehrer and Joshua Tapley
Nicole Shearer and Rosa Jesse during an interview for International Day of Women and Girls in STEM
DLR team wearing the new EJR-Quartz hoodies
Internal Communications team seminar in Paris
Lunch break in the Leiden HQ Office
Team trip to Porto
Susan, Mali and Mariana
Mariana, Susan and Mali at work
Content Matters Group in Porto
Erica Rolfe, Cees Walen and Mariana Barrosa
Mariana Barrosa with EJR-Quartz co-founders Cees Walen and Erica Rolfe
Rosa, Nicole, Sarah and Josh at the 20th EMBL Science and Society Conference
Romina Persi reporting from LPS in Milan, May 2019
At Living Planet Symposium 2019 in Milan
Nicole Shearer and Mario Morellon at COP, December 2018
Understanding climate in Svalbard
Understanding climate in Svalbard, Nordic ESERO course on climate change
EJR-Quartz in Race for the Cure, Rome May 2018
EJR-Quartz Workshop, Athens October 2017
EJR-Quartz Workshop, Athens October 2017
EJR-Quartz Workshop, Athens October 2017
EJR-Quartz Workshop, Athens October 2017. Credit: SJM Photography
EJR-Quartz Workshop, Athens October 2017. Credit: SJM Photography
EJR-Quartz Workshop, Athens October 2017. Credit: SJM Photography
EJR-Quartz Workshop, Athens October 2017. Credit: SJM Photography
EJR-Quartz Workshop, Athens October 2017. Credit: SJM Photography
#Sentinel2Go social media launch event at ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany, 6-7 March 2017. Image credit: ESA/J. Mai
#Sentinel2Go social media launch event at ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany, 6-7 March 2017. Image credit: ESA/J. Mai
#Sentinel2Go social media launch event at ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany, 6-7 March 2017. Image credit: ESA/J. Mai
#Sentinel2Go social media launch event at ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany, 6-7 March 2017. Image credit: ESA/J. Mai
#Sentinel2Go social media launch event at ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany, 6-7 March 2017. Image credit: ESA/J. Mai
#Sentinel2Go social media launch event at ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany, 6-7 March 2017. Image credit: ESA/J. Mai
#Sentinel2Go social media launch event at ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany, 6-7 March 2017. Image credit: ESA/J. Mai
#Sentinel2Go #SocialSpace event at ESOC. Credit: ESA/RPalmari
#Sentinel2Go Social Space launch event at ESOC. Credit: ESA/L.Guilpain
#Sentinel2Go social media launch event at ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany, 6-7 March 2017
Team retreat in Lisbon, Portugal 2013
Tweetup at ESTEC, Noordwijk, NL with ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers led by our own Mr. Operations Daniel Scukas
Erica and Daniel at the first European #spacetweetup
Karina with Rosetta scientist Matt Taylor
Karin Ranero Celius and Emily Baldwin at re:publica 15 speaking about the Rosetta/Philae social media campaign
At the #Lucatweetup
Kelsea, Daniel and Lisa at Sentinel-1A launch
EJR-Quartz co-director Erica Rolfe is the Chief Publisher for all of ESA’s online channels. Maria Bennett is Chief Social Media Publisher for ESA.
Emily receives ESA Rosetta award on behalf of the ESA Science communications team
At the end of a long and intense week, there was a chance to raise a glass at the Symposium’s closing cocktails. See you at the next Living Planet Symposium!
Kelsea interview
‘EO gal’ Kelsea Brennan-Wessels interviewing Wolfram Mauser for special 2016 Living Planet edition of Earth From Space
Twitter coverage
Editors Kelsea Brennan-Wessels and Honora Rider bring you all the latest news and info on ESA’s Earth Observation programmes
ESA Rosetta team awards at ESAC, Madrid, November 2015
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Editor Julien Harrod manning the ESA stand at the NASA Plum Brook Station Open House in Ohio, USA
Behind the Scenes with editor Sean Blair as he hosts a Facebook LIVE session at ESTEC, the Netherlands
Sean and AIM scientists and engineers during the Facebook LIVE demonstration of the physical asteroid model being used for the mission’s camera assessment, at ESTEC, the Netherlands
Publishing meeting at ESRIN
Erica leading the Monday morning publishing meeting at ESRIN
Buzzing with excitement for Rosetta Grand Finale coverage at ESOC
Science selfies are the best selfies!
And that’s a wrap! The WHOLE team – scientists, flight controllers, comms officers – after an emotional 2 days. Goodbye Rosetta. It’s been a pleasure!
Back at ESOC in Darmstadt to help cover ExoMars arrival and landing!
What helping to cover a #marslanding looks like

Round of applause for some members of the team who helped relay all the ExoMars excitement to us! From right to left: Erica Rolfe, Dr. Emily Baldwin, Maria Bennett, Dr. Claudia Mignone (Vitrociset Belgium for ESA), Thomas Ormston (ESA) and Daniel Scuka

Content manager Lisa Guilpain working with EU Horizon 2020 project DexROV, bringing science, robotics and innovatiion to the seabed
Bionic boss Cees!
Human spaceflight editor Julien Harrod and Paxi the ESA Kids mascot at the Columbus Control Centre for Thomas Pesquet’s Proxima mission launch and docking, Nov 2016

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