Monica Grady is a leading British space scientist, primarily known for her work on meteorites.She is currently Professor of Planetary and Space Science at the Open University. Grady is one of the members of Euro-Cares, an EU-funded Horizon2020 project which has the aim of developing a roadmap for a European Sample Curation Facility, designed to curate precious samples returned from Solar System exploration missions to asteroids, Mars, the Moon and comets.