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Who Is Jenni Sidey-Gibbons Husband? Her Family Life & Facts

Jenni-Sidey-Gibbons

Jenni Sidey-Gibbons and her husband into similar professions. It is such a joyous feeling for both the husband-wife duo to contribute to the Canadian Space Agency.

Firstly, this article will explore more details on her husband’s bio followed by her family life acts that talk more about her motivating mother. 

Jenni Sidey-Gibbons is a Canadian astronaut. She is also an engineer and academic and is the 2016 recipient of the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s Young Woman Engineer and Royal Academy of Engineering Young Engineer of the Year Award.

Who Is Jenni Sidey-Gibbons Husband?

Jenni Sidey-Gibbons’ husband name is Chris Gibbon. He is a well-known British psychologist whom she first met while at the University of Cambridge. Upon knowing each other for a while, the two went to walk the wedding aisle in 2018.


Since their marriage, Jenni has taken her husband’s surname. The two are yet to start a family citing their busy career schedule, they have set one utmost priority.

Jenni Sidey-Gibbons Bio & Family: Wiki, Parents, Age

The engineer is 32 years of age, born on 3 August 1988 in Calgary, Alberta. Talking about her family life, her mother often took her to museums where little Jenni could find role models from the science and engineering field. It was all because of her interest in the field of science well-known by her mother. 

Likewise, her uncle, a civil engineer by profession also made sure she is a part of designing works. To which one included designing a baseball pitch that would properly drain during rainstorms for a passive water treatment plant.

From attending McGill University, she got an honors bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering. Later in 2015, she did her Ph.D. in engineering at Jesus College, Cambridge.

Professional Life Facts!

Before collaborating with the Canadian Space Agency, she got the fortune to work as a lecturer in internal combustion engines at the Department of Engineering of the University of Cambridge. Moreover, she also taught graduate and undergraduate students in the Fluid Mechanics, Energy, and Turbomachinery Division. 


Her career at Canadian Space Agency began in 2017 and soon went training as an astronaut during the fourth Canadian astronaut recruitment campaign. So, upon relocating to Houston, Texas in July 2017, she did a two-year NASA Astronaut Candidate Training Program at the Johnson Space Center. 

Some Interesting Facts About Jenni Sidey-Gibbons

  • The astronaut has over 68.9 K Instagram and 15.5K Twitter followers.
  • At the time in McGill, she carried out research in collaboration with the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and the National Research Council Flight Research Laboratory on flame propagation in microgravity.
  • While at Jesus College, she focused on combustion under the supervision of Professor Nondas Mastorakos.
  • Currently, Jenni is training alongside the 2017 NASA astronaut class.

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Update: 2024-05-18