Katherine Gudrun Isaak is a British astrophysicist and the Project Scientist for the European Space Agency Characterising Exoplanet Satellite mission (CHEOPS).
She has spoken about how important her high school physics and chemistry teachers were in helping her decide to become a scientist.
[7] She was part of the SPICA mission and helped to build the SPIRE instrument for the Herschel Space Observatory.
[11] Isaak is the European Space Agency Project Scientist for the CHEOPS mission, designed to measure the radii of exoplanets.
[12][13][14][15] CHEOPS, which was selected in 2012 as the first Small-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision science programme,[16] launched on 18 December 2019.