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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 two PhD students.
Co-director of The 1752 Group Jan 2017 – Present
Lead of Media, Campaigns and Advocacy in the 1752 Group (www.1752group.com), a research and activist organisation tackling sexual misconduct in higher education via. evidence-based policy change.
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
2020 Women of the Future Award, Shortlisted (winner to be announced)
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
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
Recent notable talks:
- University of Lancaster, June 2020, invited seminar, (postponed due to Covid-19)
- University of Nottingham, May 2020, invited seminar, (postponed due to Covid-19)
- Cosmological Analyses Featuring galactic Foreground Emission, May 2020, Invited review
- University of Hertfordshire, February 2020, invited seminar
- Queen Mary University of London, Astronomy colloquium,Oct 2018, invited seminar
- 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
- Organised creation of Imperial College Department of Physics Welfare Committee, 2018
- 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 – 2019
- Institute of Physics Diversity and Inclusion Committee member, 2013 – present
- UCL JUNO committee, 2014 – 2015
Media
- Guest on BBC Radio 4 Inside Science discussing astronomy stories of the year
- Authored Article in the i Paper, an excerpt from First Light: https://inews.co.uk/news/science/first-stars-world-bodies-emma-chapman-astrophysicist-explained-795458
- Authored Article in Science Focus on Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Dec 2020: https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/the-life-changing-and-long-lasting-influence-of-cecilia-payne-gaposchkin/
- Guest on Irish TechNews, Future Proof, Times Radio, Nov 2020
- Guest on BBC News discussing NDAs, and their use in higher education, March 2020
- National Geographic, October 2019, https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/science-and-technology/2019/10/once-most-famous-scientists-were-men-thats-changing
- Guest on Victoria Derbyshire, LBC, Sky News and Channel 5 News, MP’s call for a ban on NDAs, June 2019
- Guest on Radio 4 Inside Science end of year special representing Astrophysics, Dec 2018
- Invited Commentary to Physics Today December Issue, https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4080
- Guest on Radio 4 Inside Science discussing women in STEM initiatives, August 2018
- “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 Outreach Talks
Science
- “First Light”, popular science book to be published by Bloomsbury, November 2020, https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/first-light-9781472962928/
- Interplanetary Podcast, November 2020, https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/211-emma-chapman-first-stars/id1097505801?i=1000498723248
- BBC Sky at Night Magazine podcast, November 2020, https://play.acast.com/s/radio-astronomy/20yearsoftheinternationalspacestation
- Babble Talks, June 2019 and Jan 2020
- Imperial Festival, Day in the Life talks, June 2019
- Friends of Imperial College London, “First Stars”, October 2018
- 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/
- Euroscience Open Forum, “The Square Kilometer Array: showing the early stages of our Universe”, July 2018
- Cheltenham Science Festival, Panel Member, “Beyond Light: The Future of Astronomy”, June 2018
Diversity
- University of Nottingham, May 2020, invited diversity colloquium, (postponed due to Covid-19)
- University of Bristol, Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop, invited diversity panel member, Apr 2020
- Cheltenham Science Festival, Panel Member, “Workplace Bullies”
- Gamechangers Conference, Turing Institute, “How to Moan Effectively and Effect Change”, September 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31M8SGez90E
- Institute of Physics JUNO Diversity and Harassment Conference, “Sexual Misconduct in UK Universities”, August 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
Teaching
- 2020/2021 – BSc and MSc project supervisor
- 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, Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)