|
Travels From:
Melbourne
Fee Range: E
|
|
Chloe Chang (24) is an Australian space engineer, founder, and rising global voice in the future of
space exploration and STEM inclusion. Named among the Herald Sun’s 25 Under 25 to Watch in
2025, she works at the frontier of lunar robotics while democratising access to space — particularly
for young women and girls. Her multidisciplinary background spans space engineering, fashion, art,
and AI, and she speaks passionately on how dissolving industry barriers between art and tech will
lead to the inventions of the future.
Chloe is a space engineer in the mechanical team at Lunar Outpost, contributing to the design of the
Australian Space Agency’s first lunar rover — Roo-ver — supporting NASA’s Artemis missions. She
holds a degree in Robotics and Mechatronics Engineering and previously served as Co-CEO of the
Monash Nova Rover university student team, leading them to a second-place global finish at the
2023 University Rover Challenge against more than 100 international teams. At the start of her
career, Chloe tested rover mobility systems at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, experimenting with
wheel performance in simulated lunar regolith at the Swamp Works Granular Mechanics and
Regolith Operations Lab. She later joined CSIRO as a robotics engineer summer intern, working
with collaborative robots to support more efficient scientific research and lab operations.
Chloe is the Founder of Ionique, a women-led nonprofit creating space exploration missions for
high school girls. Its flagship program — the Joey Mission — will send a student-built micro-rover
to the Moon, empowering thousands of girls across Australia to design, build, and operate real
mission hardware in space. She has also led cultural change initiatives like Pink Rover, sparking
global conversations about women’s experiences in space robotics. The project’s impact was
presented at the International Astronautical Congress, highlighting the systemic pressures that
suppress feminine identity in STEM and the urgency of inclusive engineering cultures.
With six years of experience teaching robotics and engineering to young people, Chloe is committed
to building the future space workforce — one driven by creativity, diversity, and bold imagination.
She believes our full technical innovation will be unlocked once gender parity in STEM fields is
reached.
|
