Wycombe Astronomy Society (WAS)
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Wed, 19 Feb
|Coleshill Village Hall
Lecture - Dr Emma Chapman - Radio Astronomy and SETI'
Time & Location
19 Feb 2025, 20:00 – 22:00
Coleshill Village Hall, Barracks Hill, Amersham, Coleshill, Amersham HP7 0LN, UK
About the Event
About Emma
I am a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow based at Imperial College London and also a member of the LOFAR-EoR core team. I supervise two PhD students. My website can be found here.
Research Interests:
- Cosmic Dawn and the First Stars
- Epoch of reionization
- 21-cm cosmology
- Foreground removal
- Semi-numeric simulations
- Construction of data analysis pipelines for LOFAR / SKA
Awards:
2017 L’Oréal Women in Science Fellowship, Highly Commended, £1000
2014 The Shell and Institute of Physics Award for the Very Early Career Woman Physicist of the Year: winner
2013 UCL Chris Skinner Department of Physics and Astronomy Thesis Prize: winner
2013 Royal Astronomical Society Michael Penston Thesis Prize: runner up
2010 Durham University J.B.Chalmers Prize: winner for having amongst the three highest Physics degree marks in the year.
Career Path:
Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship
Imperial College London
Oct 2020 - Present
RAS Research Fellowship
Imperial College London
Oct 2015 – Oct 2018
Postdoctoral Researcher
University College London
Dec 2013 – Oct 2015
PhD
University College London
Oct 2010 – Dec 2013
Thesis title: Seeing the Light: Foreground Removal in the Dark and Dim Ages
MPhys (First)
Durham University
Oct 2006 – July 2010
Diversity/Policy:
I am a member of the Imperial JUNO committee. I am passionate about making academia a more pleasant environment for everyone. I am co-director of The 1752 Group, a campaign group tackling sexual misconduct in higher education.
Book:
I have written a popular science book on the subject of the first stars, published by Bloomsbury Sigma in November 2020. Order here.