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Dr Emma Chapman – Brief Curriculum Vitae
Proleptic Lecturer University of Nottingham Oct 2021 – present
Research Interests: Foreground mitigation; Epoch of reionization; Cosmology; Radio interferometry and data reduction; Signal processing
My research is centred around research into the Era of the First Stars, contributing to its detection through membership of the LOFAR core EoR team and leading a focus group on foreground removal within the SKA working group. I supervise two PhD students.
Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship University of Nottingham Oct 2021 – present
Imperial College London Oct 2018 – Oct 2021
Science Communication Author Freelance
I am a popular science author and I have produced articles in popular magazines such as The Guardian, The i Paper, The Big Issue and Astronomy Now. “First Light”, my first popular science book, was published by Bloomsbury in November 2020. I have now signed a deal for two further books.
Notable Research Prizes and Major Grants
2020 Women of the Future Award, Shortlisted
2019 Imperial College Julia Higgins Medal for a significant contribution to the support of academic women.
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
Research Presentations
30+ invited talks. Recent invited talks:
- University of Stanford, April 2022
- University of Manchester Annual Schuster Lecture, February 2022
- University of Nottingham, November 2021
- University of Sussex, November 2021
- ASTRON, Groningen, Netherlands, June 2021
- University of Cambridge, March 2021
- University of Oxford, February 2021
Recent Media
- BBC University Challenge, December 2022
- BBC Sky at Night, November 2022
- The Astroholic Explains Podcast, September 2022
- Leonard Lopate at Large – WBAI Radio – NYC, June 2022
- BBC Cornwall, July 2022
- BBC Science Focus Instant Genius Podcast, May 2022
- The Naked Scientists Podcast, May 2022
- BBC Radio London, CERN Reactivation interview, April 2022
- Authored article in The Guardian regarding Earendel, the farthest star, April 2022 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/apr/10/how-hubble-astronomers-saw-earendel-star
- BBC Inside Science, April 2022, Seeing Ancient Stars
- BBC Radio Nottingham, April 2022, Seeing Ancient Stars
- German ZDF TV, Women in STEM Special, interviewee, March 2022,
- BBC ‘Science’s Greatest Mysteries’ interviewee
- BBC ‘Universe’/NOVA ‘Universe Revealed’, feature interviewee, Oct 2021
- Guest on Radio 4 Today Programme, Harassment and Bullying in Science, July 2021
- NPR Cool Science Podcast, May 2021
- Royal Astronomical Society Supermassive Podcast, Feb 2021
- Guest on BBC Radio 4 Inside Science discussing astronomy stories of the year
- Authored Article in the i Paper, an excerpt from First Light.
- Guest on Irish TechNews, Future Proof, Times Radio, Dec 2020
- The Times Podcast, Dec 2020
- Authored Article in Science Focus on Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Dec 2020.
Recent Science Outreach
- CosmoQuest Conference, Book reading and ‘First Stars’ panel, October 2022
- ‘The Garden’, October 2022
- Falmouth Book Festival, July 2022
- Goonhilly Science/Music/Book Festivall, July 2022
- University of Nottingham public lecture, ‘First Stars’, June 2022
- University of Stanford public lecture, ‘First Stars’, April 2022
- Nature Masterclasses: Networking – major contributor and interviewee
- Open University Space Society, July 2021
- Edinburgh Science Festival, A reading of First Light, July 2021, https://www.sciencefestival.co.uk/event-details/first-light-switching-on-stars-at-the-dawn-of-time-with-emma-chapman
- York Science Festival, June 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq_bbQyD94E
- American Natural History Museum, New York, May 2021
- Physics Today (US publication) Webinar, April 2021
- AstroFest 2021, March 2021
- Skeptics in the Pub, February 2021
- Royal Institution talk on the First Stars, audience of 700, Nov 2020
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmhR_ttQ9-E
- Royal Museums Greenwich, In conversation with…, Nov 2020 https://www.rmg.co.uk/membership/conversation-dr-emma-chapman-first-light-switching-on-stars-dawn-time
- … [See attached CV for full list]
- New Scientist Live, “First Stars”, September 2018, largest audience of the day. https://www.newscientist.com/video/2184799-emma-chapman-the-first-stars-in-the-universe/
- Cheltenham Science Festival, Panel Member, “Beyond Light: The Future of Astronomy”, June 2018
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