Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock PhD is a space scientist whose passion is presenting science and demonstrating that you ‘don’t need a brain the size of a small planet’ to understand science. She is a BAFTA-nominated TV presenter, co-hosting the world’s longest-running science television programme The Sky at Night and delivering the 2025 RI Christmas lectures. Maggie also won the Institute of Physics gold medal for exceptional services to science education and physics communication and was made a Dame in the 2023 New Year’s Honours list.
