Careers

Name: Louise Harra Job: Director of PMOD/WRC in Davos, Switzerland and affiliated professor at ETH Zürich Medal: Chapman medal 2014 My career probably started out with a trip to Armagh Planetarium when I was in primary school – though I didn’t think…

Nial Tanvir is a professor of astronomy at the University of Leicester, and is the recipient of the 2019 Herschel Medal of the RAS. Nial obtained his PhD from the University of Durham for a thesis on the extragalactic distance scale. He subsequently…

My name is Ingo Waldmann and I’m a lecturer in astrophysics at the University College London (UCL). In 2019 I won the RAS Fowler Award (G) for my work in machine learning to characterising the atmospheres of extrasolar planets. Exoplanets are…

My name is James Hough and I won the 2018 RAS Gold medal (A) for my experimental contribution to the detection of gravitational waves from coalescing black holes in the Universe by the LIGO/Virgo detector collaboration. My whole career has...

RAS Annie Maunder Medal for Outreach, 2018 Helen Mason has a passion for studying the Sun, which she loves to share with everyone - students, school children, the public, indeed anyone who will listen, even at music festivals like SolarSphere and...

I completed my MSci at Imperial College London in Physics. I had not previously considered doing a PhD but in my final year I worked on data from the Cassini satellite and found the research really interesting, and decided that spending a few more...

Head of Department: Earth Sciences Head of Subject: Geography Patrick Moore Medal 2019 – for Outstanding Contribution to Education I have been teaching in schools and sixth form colleges since my mid-twenties and have been at Aquinas 6th College...

Prof. Baojiu Li was awarded the RAS Fowler (A) Award in 2019, the Winton Capital Prize in 2013 and the Michael Penston Thesis Prize in 2010. He received his BSc degree from Tsinghua University, China in 2004, MPhys from the Chinese University of…

I'm Affelia Wibisono, a PhD Student at Mullard Space Science Laboratory and I recently received the Rishbeth Prize for Best Student Talk at NAM 2019. I completed my MSci Physics degree at Royal Holloway, University of London and went on to have a...

My name is Matt Taylor, I work for the European Space Agency as a Project Scientist in the Directorate of Science. I was honoured to be awarded the RAS 2018 Service Award for Geophysics, for my work with the ESA Rosetta mission to a comet. A Project…