Monica Mary Grady, CBE[2] (born 15 July 1958 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK),[3] is a British space scientist, primarily known for her work on meteorites.

"[9] A video of her highly enthusiastic reaction when Philae successfully landed on the comet was published widely around the internet on many media sources.

[2] In July 2019, Grady was awarded an Honorary Doctorate honoris causa by Liverpool Hope University for her work in communication of science and faith; in January 2020, she was installed as its third Chancellor.

Grady is one of the members of Euro-Cares,[11] an EU-funded Horizon2020 project which has the aim of developing a roadmap for a European Sample Curation Facility, designed to curate precious samples returned from Solar System exploration missions to asteroids, Mars, the Moon and comets.

[13] Ian was Principal Investigator of the Ptolemy instrument on the Philae lander, part of ESA's Rosetta spacecraft.