Known for Acting
Birthday
March 9, 1968
Place of Birth
Islington, London, England, UK
Biography
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.

The One Show

QI

Would I Lie to You?

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

Pointless Celebrities

Richard Osman's House of Games

Michael McIntyre's The Wheel

Doctor Who Confidential

The Sky at Night

The Sky at Night

Strangest Things

I Literally Just Told You

Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit

Alien Files: Reopened

The Infinite Monkey Cage