Lucie Poulet

Recognized under Tier 6 — Food Production & Space Agriculture, Lucie Poulet conducts research on plant growth systems and controlled-environment agriculture for long-duration spaceflight at DLR. Poulet's work on optimizing plant growth hardware, lighting systems, and cultivation protocols for space habitats — including research conducted at DLR and in collaboration with NASA — has helped advance the practical science of producing food in the constrained and demanding conditions of a spacecraft or planetary habitat. Growing crops reliably under these conditions, with careful management of energy, water, atmosphere, and nutrition, is a foundational requirement for any self-sustaining Mars colony.