That's a very good question! It differs greatly per day, per mission we are hosting, and what the rest of the team is working on. In a very broad sense, ICEE.Space is using analogous terrains in Isolated, Confined, and/or Extreme Environments on Earth, to simulate living on the Moon or Mars. This will become an even more crucial part of succesful, efficient, and safe extra-terrestrial exploration for humans and robots.

Being a start-up, everyone will always have to wear multiple hats within our company, but most of my days for ICEE.Space are filled by coordinating people, thinking big, and performing outreach tasks such as writing mission reports, attending conferences, or speaking to potential investors. As the in-house geosciences nerd, I am the key responsible person to select the sites in which we do our simulation campaigns.

I think this is the coolest part of my job, where I get to travel to remote locations, meet local experts, and make assessments of why a certain area is suited or not. This is also where I learn the most fascinating and exciting new things; by talking to local specialists, whether they come from an engineering, scientific, nature preservation, or artistic background - I hope to be able to best grasp their knowledge, their intentions, and their ideas of the future, and translate that to the international set of clients, researchers, and future space travellers of ICEE.Space.

I have always had a fascination with space sciences and wanting to understand how *everything* works. When I was finishing high school, I wanted to do something interdisciplinary, either with a focus on chemistry, physics, or biology, and preferably something to do with space. Unfortunately, there were not many options to study 'the Great Question of life, the universe, and everything' in a literal sense. So I wanted to start with learning to understand how the Earth works, and expanding from there into the wide universe.

It was during my undergraduate degrees in Earth Sciences, that I learned about the world(s) of exogeology: the study of Earth-found processes off-Earth. This lead me to dive deeper up into space, where I have seen the interactions between these planetary sciences, astrobiology, and human space exploration. Using local resources, structures, and geological features - in a sustainable way - to allow human exploration of the Moon, Mars, and beyond, sounds like an amazing way to contribute to the future of humankind.

Since co-founding ICEE.Space, I also focus more on the benefit of space in the exact other direction. Not 'simply' making the future of our species out there in space better, but also by asking how we can utilize the technologies, insights, data, and resources from space, to make our home planet a better living space for all future generations. This has also lead me to become more involved again in conversations about renewability, sustainability, and fossil-free fuels and production processes with some of my previous Earth-Sciences student peers, who once went in a completely different direction. In that sense, I think I did not really 'end up in space'; no more than everybody else on Earth already is.

Ahh, there are so many! I think that is the coolest thing when working in space; the people. Practically everybody has such an enormous passion for what they are doing, how they are contributing to, and the changes that we can make in such an incredible venture as space exploration. When speaking to some of our engineers or collaborators, I can often make out some normal words.. but not always. Even if I do not understand them however, they are always happy to explain or show it again, and do this with such enthusiasm, that it makes it only a fun learning experience and challenge to understand more things.

Even the fields where I never thought that I would interest myself in, such as how to read legal contracts and NDA's, how to attract investors, or how to set up a business case for my own company. These are all non-tech, non-scientific fields, but when we first started, it was really eye-opening to see how big these worlds are, and how many people are also working hard on these sides of the space sector. I think that would also be my advice for everyone who aspires to take their career into a space career. The great thing with bringing a part of humanity into space, means that we will have a need for everything that humans do on Earth - in space. Space and Earth are getting so closely connected and related, that I fear it is going to be an impossible task to find something that would have zero applications in space within the next few years. If you want to get involved in space, there is only one way to go: UP!