Benjamin Fernando

I’m a physicist working on the NASA InSight Mars mission, and finished my PhD in 2021. I completed a Masters’ Degree at Imperial College London in 2016, and a summer course in space science at the Swedish Institute of Space Research the same year.

My work involves modelling seismic wave propagation in fluid media, focussing on both terrestrial (ocean/atmosphere) and stellar applications. I have also investigated the seismic impact detectability on Mars.

Outreach projects that I have worked on include the Imperial Festival in 2015 and 2016, the Science Museum ‘Sharman 25’ event, and the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2017 and 2019.