Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Scientists & Technologists
Also working within:
Academics & Education
Also working within:
Academics & Education
Based: Guildford/London
Organisation:
Imperial College London
Maggie is a space scientist, broadcaster and author who has a passion for presenting science to general audiences. Maggie studied at Imperial College, where she obtained a degree in Physics and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. Since then, Maggie has spent much of her career making novel, bespoke instrumentation in industrial and academic environments. She has worked on projects aiming to improve the better understanding of climate change, including the recently launched ESA Aeolus satellite, which measures wind speed in the Earth’s atmosphere with the aim of better weather and climate change predictions. Maggie is the founder of Science Innovation Ltd; through this, she conducts public engagement activities. To date, she has reached over 350,000 school children around the world, engaging them with the incredible wonders
of space.
“We won’t climb out of recession, or meet the challenges of climate change, by thinking small. To my mind, climate change is one of the biggest challenges we face today. But it will not be solved if we act in isolation. We need to break barriers and join forces to find solutions to this global problem.”