 I fell in love with space when I was a little kid growing up out in the country in Queensland because the sky is just on show every night and it's stunning and beautiful. My favourite thing about space is all of the things we don't know yet. The fact that I get to go out every day and discover new things about the galaxy around us is really my favourite thing, it's stunning to me. My name is Dr Jesse Christensen, I did my Bachelor of Science with Advanced Studies at Griffith University and now I'm a research scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute. I work on the NASA Kepler mission looking for exoplanets and now very recently I work on the NASA TESS mission which is our new exoplanet hunter that we launched in April. Exoplanets are planets around other stars and what I do is detect them and characterise them and catalogue them. I think we face a lot of challenges in society right now and science has a lot to offer for those solutions but if people aren't listening to scientists, if people don't trust scientists then we don't have an avenue for helping. I want to be there in front of them saying, I'm a scientist, here's my work, here are your results and be like you can trust me. I went to an All Girls Catholic High School and I didn't have a lot of female role models for successful scientists and now I feel like I need to be that role model for young women. I need to be out there representing science and saying look you can do it, you can be a scientist. I did it, you can do it too. For me being remarkable means always taking the extra step, never resting, always finding the next thing that you can do to make things better for the people around you. I would say the biggest challenge I've had to overcome is my own doubt about whether or not I could do these things. Every step of the way I've had people guiding me and pushing me and helping me so I feel very strongly that I need to be that person for young female scientists. My advice for the next generation is to believe in yourself because you can do it. You can actually find a route that works for you, it might not be the route that works for everybody else. I didn't take the route that works for everybody else but I got where I wanted to be and that's the advice I would say, believe in yourself and find the route.