The Competition for ESA’s Next Astronauts – Naomi Rowe-Gurney
Applications for ESA’s next astronauts recently closed, and several Leicester scientists were among the 22,500 people who applied – PhD student Naomi Rowe-Gurney was featured in the Telegraph, discussing her application. Planetary Scientist Naomi Rowe-Gurney was interviewed by Lizzie Roberts of the Telegraph newspaper, as one of the ~2000 British applicants to follow in the […]
Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2021 – Part 2
On February 11th the School of Physics and Astronomy joined in with the International Day of Women and Girls in Science celebrations, using Twitter (@PhysicsUoL) to showcase some of the valuable, innovative research currently being led by women around the School.In this second in a series of three posts, we move beyond the planetary explorers […]
Leicester graduate launches space career with NASA
Congratulations to Leicester PhD student Daniel Watters, a PhD student from Leicester’s Earth Observation Science Group, has been awarded a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, US. Daniel has studied at the University of Leicester since 2013. He first received an MPhys Physics with Astrophysics degree in July […]
Entries Open for the Three-Minute Thesis Competition
The University of Leicester is back hosting its own 3 Minute Thesis annual competition and this year it is open to Early Career Researchers and PostDocs. 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) is an academic competition developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. Entries will be judged on their ability to communicate research in a non-technical […]
Congrats to Soheb Mandhai – Winning Entry for RAS Early Career Poster Exhibition
The School congratulates researcher Soheb Mandhai on one of the five winning entries for the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) poster exhibition. With NAM cancelled in the RAS’s 200th anniversary year, the RAS wanted to give early career researchers the opportunity to share their work in a format that is freely available to all. Led by […]
Why Not… Join the Conversation on Discord?
Undergraduate students in the School of Physics and Astronomy run the “To Infinity and Beyond” Discord server, open to all to maintain a strong community during the months of lockdown. For many of us, learning how to communicate and maintain friendships in a virtual world is a relatively new experience, with many hours of formal […]
PhD Projects for 2021
Several proposed STFC-supported and NERC-supported PhD studentships in Planetary Science, Astrophysics and Earth Observation will be available at the University of Leicester, starting in September 2021. Application Deadline for STFC projects: January 20th 2021.Application Deadline for NERC/CENTA projects: January 11th 2021. The list of advertised projects can be found here, including (but not limited to) topics in […]
The NASA-JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement mission
Leicester precipitation scientists Daniel Watters and Alessandro Battaglia outline how a NASA-JAXA mission addresses the challenge of global measurement of precipitation. Two precipitation scientists from Leicester’s Earth Observation Science Group have written a paper aimed at describing the NASA-JAXA Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission to a general audience (https://doi.org/10.1002/wea.3865). The Leicester scientists use the space-borne […]
Enter the STEM for Britain 2021 Poster Competition
Applications for the STEM for Britain 2021 poster competition are now open, and we encourage all early career researchers in the School of Physics and Astronomy to apply. STEM for Britain is an annual poster competition which gives early-career research scientists, engineers and mathematicians the opportunity to engage with MPs and Peers, and boost the […]
Launching ‘Black History Month’ Newsletters
The Postgraduate Team have launched a new series of Black History Month newsletters for the School of Physics and Astronomy. Emma Thomas explains the inspirations behind this effort. The Black History Month Newsletters were first created to provide an accessible brief format where readers could start/continue their ongoing education of Black History and Science in […]
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