Helen Czerski | |
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Born | Manchester, England [1] | 1 November 1978
Education | Altrincham Grammar School for Girls |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge (MA, PhD) |
Known for | Oceanography Television presenter |
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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 |
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]
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]
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.
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"Episode 1, Dr Helen Czerski & Clive Thompson", Ada Lovelace Day Podcast | |
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"Bubble Physicist Helen Czerski", University of Rhode Island | |
"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]
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 ]
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