Lucie Poulet
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About
Lucie Poulet is a leading researcher at the intersection of space agriculture, bioregenerative life support, and controlled environment horticulture. Her work is foundational to the future of long-duration human spaceflight, focusing on how to grow crops reliably beyond Earth. Poulet’s most impactful contribution is her 2022 perspectives paper, "Large-Scale Crop Production for the Moon and Mars," which has garnered 38 citations and is widely recognized for systematically identifying the critical bottlenecks in space farming. In this work, she pinpoints challenges such as altered convection in microgravity, scheduling logistics, crew time constraints, and the urgent need for advanced automation, robotics, and machine learning to make off-world agriculture viable. She also contributed to the conceptual design of a lunar greenhouse within the European MELiSSA framework, blending architectural innovation with biological engineering to create sustainable habitats. Poulet’s research is not just theoretical; it directly informs the next generation of life support systems for NASA and ESA missions. For students and researchers, her work offers a clear roadmap of the unsolved problems—and the exciting opportunities—in the emerging field of space crop production.
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