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Dr Emma Chapman – Curriculum Vitae

Work Address: Astrophysics Group, Imperial College London, Blackett Laboratory, Prince Consort Road, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
E-Mail: e.chapman@imperial.ac.uk

Website: https://dremmachapman.wordpress.com

Twitter: @DrEOChapman

Research Interests: Foreground mitigation; Epoch of reionisation; Cosmology; Radio interferometry and data reduction; Signal processing

Career Summary

Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship         Imperial College London         Oct 2018 – Present

My fellowship is centred around research into the Epoch of Reionisation (EoR), contributing to its detection through membership of the LOFAR core EoR team and leading a focus group on foreground removal and pipeline simulations within the SKA working group. I supervise one PhD student, Iandeep Hothi.

Royal Astronomical Society Research Fellowship         Imperial College London         Oct 2015 – Oct 2018

Postdoctoral Researcher            University College London     Dec 2013 – Oct 2015

SKA-funded postdoctoral research position, continuing personal research and contributing to the organization of the SKA EoR pipeline within the SKA SDP consortium.

PhD                                                University College London       Oct 2010 – Dec 2013

Thesis title: Seeing the Light: Foreground Removal in the Dark and Dim Ages, supervised by Dr Filipe Abdalla.

MPhys                                           Durham University                     Oct 2006 – July 2010

Integrated masters in Theoretical Physics awarded as a First. Overall Firsts achieved in every year and every module with an overall degree percentage of 81%.

Research Prizes and Major Grants

2018 Royal Society Research Enhancement Award, £97,000

2018 Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship (accepted), £635,000

2018 STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship (declined)

2018 Royal Society Athena Medal and Prize, £5000

2017 L’Oréal Women in Science Fellowship, Highly Commended, £1000

2016 CAASTRO visitor grant, £7000

2015 Royal Astronomical Society Fellowship

2014 The Shell and Institute of Physics Award for the Very Early Career Woman Physicist of the Year: winner, £1000

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 exceptional Physics degree marks

2009 Durham University Award for Outstanding Achievement in Physics: winner for consistently achieving grades of over 80%.

Research Presentations

11 invited talks, 7 presentations, 2 posters.

Recent notable talks:

• IAU Symposium 333: “Peering towards Cosmic Dawn”, Dubrovnik, Croatia, October 2017, invited review
• University of Birmingham, Astronomy colloquium, May 2017, invited seminar
• University of Nottingham, Astronomy colloquium, February 2017, invited seminar
• CAASTRO annual retreat, Australia, December 2016, invited review

Professional Services

Leadership and Project Participation

• Chair of SKA office inquiry into the effect of possible decrease in maximum baseline (8 members)
• Focus group leader within SKA-EoR working group
• LOFAR-EoR core member
• MWA, SKA-SDP

Conference Organisation

• The Epoch of Reionisation: UK community update, RAS Specialist Meeting, Feb 2018 (organiser)
• “Science at Low Frequencies IV”, Sydney, December 2017 (SOC)
• IAU Symposium: Peering towards the Cosmic Dawn, May 2017, Croatia (SOC)
• EoR Algorithms, June 2016, Cambridge (SOC)

Committee Work

• 1752 Group member, involved in drafting best practice harassment and bullying policy with UUK, UCU and NUS, 2017 – present (see e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/mar/05/students-staff-uk-universities-sexual-harassment-epidemic)
• Imperial College Sexual Harassment Policy Reform Working Group, 2018 – present
• Imperial College Equality and Diversity Forum, 2017 – present
• Imperial College London JUNO committee culture focus group leader, 2015 – present
• Institute of Physics Diversity and Inclusion Committee member, 2013 – present
• UCL JUNO committee, 2014 – 2015

Media

• “Report harassment or risk losing funding, says top UK science funder”, March 2018, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05071-7
• “Cosmic dawn: astronomers detect signals from first stars in the universe”, February 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/28/cosmic-dawn-astronomers-detect-signals-from-first-stars-in-the-universe
• Guest on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour on topic of sexual misconduct, February 2018
• Guest on sexual harassment in academia and Hollywood, BBC World News, BBC UK News, BBC Radio 4 “The World Tonight” (October 14/15 2017)
• Physics World Blog: http://blog.physicsworld.com/2017/07/28/bias-stereotyping-and-harassment-what-women-battle/#more-14619
• Contribution to “More universities must confront sexual harassment” editorial in Nature 547, 379 (27 July 2017) doi:10.1038/547379a
• Scientific advisor for Pioneer Productions, “The Universe and Me”, July 2017
• Panel member for Radio 4 “All in the Mind: Unconscious Bias” episode, a Royal Institution event (03 March 2017)
• Institute of Physics News article on PhD student culture, May 2015: http://www.iop.org/news/15/may/page_65667.html

Recent and Upcoming Outreach Talks

• New Scientist Live, September 2018
• Euroscience Open Forum, July 2018
• Cheltenham Science Festival, June 2018
• “How do we Solve Science’s Problem with Women?”, Wellcome Collection, February 2018
• Panel member for “Bias in Science”, International Conference for Women in Physics, Birmingham, July 2017
• Science for Fiction Symposium, Imperial College London, July 2017

Teaching

• 2015/2016 – Third year laboratories, semi-conductor physics, Imperial College London
• 2014/2015 – Mathematical Methods I Problem Solving Tutorials, UCL

Journal Review: AAS, MNRAS

Grant Review: STFC Astronomy Grants Panel Consolidated Grant