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Happy Monday listeners!
For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman.
We're skipping our usual news roundup today for a special series.
This week, we'll be dedicating all of our shows to science inaugural class of young American scientists.
This group of groundbreaking researchers represent the future of science, technology and medicine.
You can find out all about them in the latest print issue of Scientific American, which is coming out tomorrow.
And you'll also hear from a few of them this week on science quickly.
Today's guest is Irini Lamberties, a postdoctoral fellow at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center,
who's also affiliated with the University of Maryland College Park.
She's here to tell us about her unusual path from aspiring actress to astrophysicist.
Thanks so much for coming on to chat with us today.