Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Acting
Born March 9, 1968 · Islington, London, England, UK
Also known as Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Biography
Dame Margaret Ebunoluwa Aderin-Pocock is a British space scientist and science educator. She is an honorary research associate of University College London's Department of Physics and Astronomy, and has been the chancellor of the University of Leicester since 1 March 2023. Since February 2014, she has co-presented the long-running astronomy television program The Sky at Night with Chris Lintott. In 2020, Maggie was awarded the William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics for her public engagement in physics. She is the first black woman to win a gold medal in the Physics News Award and she served as the president of the British Science Association from 2021 to 2022.
Awards & recognition
- Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2024
- Kelvin Prize · 2020
- honorary doctorate · 2015
- honorary doctor of the University of Bath · 2014
- honorary doctorate · 2009
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- Member of the Order of the British Empire · 2008
Filmography12 titles
QI
Would I Lie to You?
Artemis: To the Moon and Back
I Literally Just Told You
Alien Files: Reopened
Strangest Things
Last Swim
Pointless Celebrities
Richard Osman's House of Games
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
The Jonathan Ross Show
The One Show