Dr. Lyndsey McMillon-Brown is a research electrical engineer at NASA Glenn Research Center where she focuses on solar cell materials development.  She is currently the lead investigator of an effort to develop perovskite solar cells that can be manufactured in space and on the moon. Lyndsey was recently awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor given by the U.S. government to young scientists and engineers. Lyndsey has also received the NASA Early Career Achievement medal and the NASA Space flight awareness trailblazer award for her work developing perovskite solar cells for space. Prior to joining NASA, Lyndsey earned her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at Yale University where she researched novel materials and nano-patterns for advanced light trapping in solar cells. Lyndsey earned her bachelor’s in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering from Miami University in Ohio.