She is the Director of the World Radiation Centre of the Physical Meteorological Observatory in Davos (PMOD/WRC)[1][2] and affiliated professor at the Institute of Particle Physics and Astrophysics of ETH Zurich.

[3] Louise Harra was born in County Armagh, and she attended later Banbridge Academy.

She was principal investigator (PI) of the EUV Imaging Spectrometer instrument on the Hinode spacecraft from 2006 to 2019.

In 2019 she moved to take on the position of director at PMOD/WRC and affiliated professor at ETH Zurich.

Harra has been involved in a number of space missions in her career.