INPhINIT Incoming PhD: "Fine tuning and usage of a global network of robotic telescopes for studying impact flashes on the moon and their biological implications for advanced control systems and habitability on the moon"

The research project is double fold: scientific and biological/technological. On one hand, the scientific goal will be to use the worldwide network of the BOOTES robotic telescopes to detect transient lunar phenomena, to characterise the size, speed, and frequency of these events. The impacts on the moon and their ejecta will threaten any life-support system built on the Moon so this analysis is very important.
On the other hand, their biological implications for advanced control systems and habitability on the moon will be studied. In particular, the work will be focused on encapsulated and pressurised habitats for plants on the moon to better understand advanced control systems and their implementation in small autonomous capsules to be used as greenhouses to study future agriculture and habitability in the Moon (as a result of a collaboration with Dr. Zheng Chen, Wrexham Glyndwr University). In previous publications, scientists understood how plants are stressed due to different temperatures in different parts of the plants. In addition to that, it has to be considered that the plant also has stimulations under different light, cosmic radiation, soil interaction or gravity. That is why, if it is possible to control the stress created by a temperature divergence, it will be easier to better understand how different gravity conditions will affect the plant ́s growth.