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Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Born: 1968-03-09 • Islington, London, England, UK

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.

Filmography
Finding Father Christmas poster
Finding Father Christmas
2025 • Self
Last Swim poster
Last Swim
2025 • Self
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The Science of Doctor Who
2012
In Orbit: How Satellites Rule Our World poster
In Orbit: How Satellites Rule Our World
2012 • Herself - Presenter
Do We Really Need the Moon? poster
Do We Really Need the Moon?
2011 • Host