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Sinéad O’Sullivan Sinéad O’Sullivan is an Armagh born aeronautical engineer and Harvard graduate who has worked with the likes of NASA. By the age of 30 she had worked in NASA, Harvard, MIT and many more technological Organisations.

Childhood
Even as a young girl in Armagh Sinéad had an interest in space. Sinéad won a competition when she was younger to attend NASA’s Johnson’s space centre in the United States.

Education
Sinéad went to secondary school at Southern Regional College in Armagh. It was here she won a competition to attend  NASA’s  space  camp. She then  went  on  to  study  aerospace  engineering in  Queen’s  University Belfast. Having graduated from Queen’s University Belfast in 2011, Sinéad worked in finance and then in NASA. She was then sponsored by the Royal Academy of Engineering to obtain her MBA. She was sponsored as a Sainsbury Management Fellow in Harvard.

Finance
Sinéad started her career working in finance as a trading programmer for Morgan Stanley in New York, and a Portfolio Analyst for a start-up bank in Dublin. This didn’t last long however, before Sinéad decided to pursue a career in the space industry.

Space
Sinéad followed her dream and went abroad to work with various space agencies. She began working with both the European and Brazilian space agencies. After this, she went on to study at the International Space University in France. Leading on from this, Sinéad went to the USA. She carried out research at Georgia Tech. She worked on innovation and bringing new ideas forward for the navy and NASA. Her research there was groundbreaking. Here, she used her skill to come up with solutions to the problems surrounding humanitarian aid. Specifically, how drone and satellite technology can help organise and deliver aid. Sinéad is the chief executive for AviOptX, a company that is creating and using the aforementioned technology. Sinéad moved to Boston to begin a research fellow at the highly revered Harvard. Sinéad recently became an interplanetary economist. In a recent talk in May of 2019, she explained the possibility of there being an economy on Mars, and the difficulties that would take place in trying to set one up. She spoke of the differences between capitalism and communism, and how capitalism in particular would be hard to implement given the lack of resources on Mars. In 2018, she was interviewed for the Royal Aeronautical Engineering Society’s ”Ingenia” magazine. According to  the  article,  she  is  commercialising  her  own  technology  that  monitors  social  media  interference in  democratic  elections. The technology  has  already  detected social  media  interference  in  the  UK  prime minister's popularity ratings, the 2016 US presidential election and midterm elections. According to  the  International  Aeronautical  Federation, Sinéad  was  “the lead  for  the  Space  Generation Advisory Council’s research group on Space Technologies for Disaster Management”. Although she manages to do this in her spare time.

Writing
Sinéad has  written  for  the  Irish  Times  on  two  different  occasions. One of these  was  writing  about  US nationalism  and  space  exploration. The other was  an  article  about  Mark  Zuckerberg  and  the  election meddling allegations that surrounded Facebook in 2018. She analyses their influence in global politics. Sin ́ead has a book idea that has been pitched to MIT. It looks at the economic and political frameworks to create a self sustaining society in Space.

Awards
Sinéad has been given various awards throughout her career. In 2016, The Irish Times named her a ‘Tech Titan’ and in 2017 she was named as one of 25 of Ireland’s phenomenal women of engineering.