Helen Czerski

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Helen Czerski
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Born (1978-11-01) 1 November 1978 (age 45)
Manchester, England [1]
Education Altrincham Grammar School for Girls
Alma mater University of Cambridge (MA, PhD)
Known for Oceanography
Television presenter
Scientific career
Institutions University of Cambridge
University of Toronto
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Graduate School of Oceanography (University of Rhode Island) [2] [3]
University of Southampton
University College London
Thesis Ignition of HMX and RDX  (2006)
Website www.helenczerski.net OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Helen Czerski (born 1 November 1978) is a British physicist and oceanographer and television presenter. She is an associate professor in the department of mechanical engineering at University College London. [4] [5] [6] She was previously at the Institute for Sound and Vibration Research at the University of Southampton. [7]

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Early life and education

Czerski was brought up in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, and educated at Altrincham Grammar School for Girls. [8] She graduated from the University of Cambridge where she was a student at Churchill College, Cambridge, with degrees Master of Arts and Master of Science in Natural Sciences (Physics) and a PhD [9] in experimental explosives physics, particularly Research Department Explosive (RDX). [1]

Career

Czerski at Thinking Digital in 2012 Helen Czerski at Thinking Digital 2012.jpg
Czerski at Thinking Digital in 2012
Czerski at the 2013 Cambridge Science Festival Cmglee Helen Czerski 2013 Cambridge Science Festival.jpg
Czerski at the 2013 Cambridge Science Festival

Czerski was a regular science presenter for the BBC. Her programmes [10] [11] [12] have included:

She has also appeared on The Museum of Curiosity (BBC Radio 4) and is an occasional presenter of the web TV and podcast show Fully Charged . She regularly appears on The Cosmic Shambles Network and co-hosts their podcasts and web series Science Shambles and They've Made Us with Robin Ince. Until September 2024, Czerski was a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal in the column "Everyday Physics". [26] She is the co-host, along with Tom Heap, of Rare Earth, BBC Radio 4's premier show on the environment.

Awards

External media
Audio
Nuvola apps arts.svg "Episode 1, Dr Helen Czerski & Clive Thompson", Ada Lovelace Day Podcast
Video
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Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg "CS4 Interview: Helen Czerski ", University of Southampton

For her "Everyday Science" column in BBC Focus magazine, Czerski was shortlisted for columnist of the year at the 2014 PPA Awards. [27] . In 2018 Czerski won the William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics for her contributions to championing the physics of everyday life to a worldwide audience of millions through TV programmes, a popular science book, newspaper columns, and public talks. [28] Czerski was made an Honorary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge in 2020. [29] She received an Honorary Doctorate in Science from the University of East Anglia in 2023. [30]

Her books have won numerous awards, including Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life, whose version in Italian translation won the third edition (2018) of Premio ASIMOV [31] (Asimov award) for the best book in scientific dissemination published in Italy, and Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World, which won the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation. [32]

Research

Czerski's research [33] focuses on temperature, ocean bubbles, bubble acoustics, air-sea gas transfer and ocean bubble optics. [7] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [ excessive citations ]

Publications

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  35. Twardowski, M.; Zhang, X.; Vagle, S.; Sullivan, J.; Freeman, S.; Czerski, H.; You, Y.; Bi, L.; Kattawar, G. (2012). "The optical volume scattering function in a surf zone inverted to derive sediment and bubble particle subpopulations". Journal of Geophysical Research. 117 (C7): n/a. Bibcode:2012JGRC..117.0H17T. doi: 10.1029/2011JC007347 .
  36. Czerski, H. (2012). "An Inversion of Acoustical Attenuation Measurements to Deduce Bubble Populations" (PDF). Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. 29 (8): 1139–1148. Bibcode:2012JAtOT..29.1139C. doi:10.1175/JTECH-D-11-00170.1. S2CID   123409654.
  37. Czerski, H.; Twardowski, M.; Zhang, X.; Vagle, S. (2011). "Resolving size distributions of bubbles with radii less than 30μm with optical and acoustical methods". Journal of Geophysical Research. 116 (C7): C00H11. Bibcode:2011JGRC..116.0H11C. doi: 10.1029/2011JC007177 .
  38. Czerski, H.; Vagle, S.; Farmer, D. M.; Hall-Patch, N. (2011). "Improvements to the methods used to measure bubble attenuation using an underwater acoustical resonator". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 130 (5): 3421–3430. Bibcode:2011ASAJ..130.3421C. doi: 10.1121/1.3569723 . PMID   22088016.
  39. Czerski, H. (2011). "A candidate mechanism for exciting sound during bubble coalescence". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 129 (3): EL83–EL88. Bibcode:2011ASAJ..129L..83C. doi: 10.1121/1.3553175 . PMID   21428472.
  40. Czerski, H.; Deane, G. B. (2011). "The effect of coupling on bubble fragmentation acoustics". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 129 (1): 74–84. Bibcode:2011ASAJ..129...74C. doi:10.1121/1.3514416. PMID   21302989.
  41. Czerski, H.; Deane, G. B. (2010). "Contributions to the acoustic excitation of bubbles released from a nozzle". The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 128 (5): 2625–2634. Bibcode:2010ASAJ..128.2625C. doi:10.1121/1.3484087. PMID   21110560.
  42. Deane, G. B.; Czerski, H. (2008). "A mechanism stimulating sound production from air bubbles released from a nozzle" (PDF). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 123 (6): EL126–EL132. Bibcode:2008ASAJ..123L.126D. doi:10.1121/1.2908198. PMID   18537298.
  43. Czerski, H.; Brown, L. M. (2008). "Application of the slip circle construction to a spherical indenter". Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics. 41 (7): 074001. doi:10.1088/0022-3727/41/7/074001. S2CID   122545817.
  44. Czerski, H.; Proud, W. G. (2007). "Relationship between the morphology of granular cyclotrimethylene-trinitramine and its shock sensitivity". Journal of Applied Physics. 102 (11): 113515–113515–8. Bibcode:2007JAP...102k3515C. doi:10.1063/1.2818106.
  45. Czerski, H.; Greenaway, M. W.; Proud, W. G.; Field, J. E. (2004). "Β-δ phase transition during dropweight impact on cyclotetramethylene-tetranitroamine". Journal of Applied Physics. 96 (8): 4131. Bibcode:2004JAP....96.4131C. doi:10.1063/1.1790067.

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