Maggie Aderin-Pocock

Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock DBE
Aderin-Pocock in the Dark Matter Garden at the Chelsea Flower Show, 2015
Born	Margaret Ebunoluwa Aderin (1968-03-09) 9 March 1968 (age 56)[1] Islington, London, England
Education	La Sainte Union Catholic School
Alma mater	Imperial College London (BSc, PhD)
Known for	The Sky at Night
Spouse	Martin Pocock ​ (m. 2002)​
Children	1
Awards	Honorary degree, Staffordshire University (2009) Honorary Fellow, British Science Association (2010) Honorary Doctor of Science, University of Bath (2014)
Scientific career
Fields	Space science
Institutions	University College London
Thesis	Interferometric Studies of Very Thin Lubricant Films in Concentrated Contacts (1995)
Doctoral advisor	Prof Philippa Cann

Dame Margaret Ebunoluwa Aderin-Pocock DBE (née Aderin; born 9 March 1968) 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.^[2] Since February 2014, she has co-presented the long-running astronomy television programme The Sky at Night with Chris Lintott. In 2020 she was awarded the Institute of Physics William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Medal^[3] and Prize 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.^[4]