{"id":849127,"date":"2026-03-25T10:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/849127\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T10:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:43:17","slug":"this-working-life-with-peter-gallagher-i-was-on-the-leadership-track-at-nasa-but-i-left-for-a-one-year-lecturing-job-at-ucd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/849127\/","title":{"rendered":"This Working Life with Peter Gallagher: \u2018I was on the leadership track at Nasa, but I left for a one-year lecturing job at UCD\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The head of astrophysics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dunsink Observatory, chats to Mary McCarthy about the US space agency, rugby, and hundred-year solar storms\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Peter Gallagher at Dunsink Observatory\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/33571e74-8a65-4232-93d4-22040d6756a5.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Peter Gallagher at Dunsink Observatory<\/p>\n<p>In conversation with Mary McCarthy<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">My dad was a service engineer and mum stayed at home. Their ambition was for their three kids to go to college.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">At O\u2019Connell School on the North Circular Road in Dublin, I started showing an interest in science. My mum was very keen for me to study it at college.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The head of astrophysics at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Dunsink Observatory, chats to Mary McCarthy about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3844],"tags":[242434,21111,187568,874,1477,770,41386,70,413,104,153774,80108,16,15,659],"class_list":["post-849127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-croke-park","tag-dublin","tag-mary-mccarthy","tag-nasa","tag-netherlands","tag-poland","tag-queens-university","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spain","tag-trinity-college-dublin","tag-ucd","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}