How Rainbow Lo is accelerating innovation

One of the most influential events in Rainbow Lo’s professional development occurred when she was 17. During her A-levels, she won a national science competition to join a group of astrobiologists and amateur rocket scientists on an expedition. The group headed to the Black Rocks desert in Nevada, US, to launch a device that would capture and detect extremophiles if present in the upper atmosphere. ‘I remember learning that science is not one straight line from A to B, it involves a lot of pivoting when things don’t go as planned. That set me up quite well for going into university and then beyond that, really for life,’ she says.