{"id":773,"date":"2021-02-18T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/?p=773"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:37:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:37:29","slug":"celebrating-international-day-of-women-and-girls-in-science-2021-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/2021\/02\/18\/celebrating-international-day-of-women-and-girls-in-science-2021-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2021 \u2013 Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>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.<br><\/em><\/strong><br>In this second in a series of three posts, we move beyond the <a href=\"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/2021\/02\/18\/celebrating-international-day-of-women-and-girls-in-science-2021-part-1\/\">planetary explorers discussed in the previous post,<\/a> leaping up the spatial scale to bring us to some incredible new developments in astronomy being led by women in the School, bringing together instrumentation and theory to learn more and more about how the universe works.<br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Astronomical Achievements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Starting on the instrumentation side, Dr Charly Feldman has been working on SVOM, a Chinese-French gamma ray burst satellite due for launch in June 2022, since 2015. She has played a key role in the project, assisting with the testing of the flight model optic. This is a pioneering optic design which has since been adopted for many other missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dr Charly Feldman has been working on SVOM, a Chinese-French GRB satellite due for launch June 2022 and has been assisting with the testing of the flight model optic. <br>Image is X-ray result at Al-K of the FM optic as tested at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uniofleicester?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@uniofleicester<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/InternationalDayOfWomenInScience?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#InternationalDayOfWomenInScience<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XOZFxAee6w\">pic.twitter.com\/XOZFxAee6w<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Physics &amp; Astronomy, University of Leicester (@PhysicsUoL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhysicsUoL\/status\/1359830467550326785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The degree of expertise in instrumentation for X-ray astronomy within the School is further illustrated by the work of Dr Hannah Lerman, as part of the ESA M5 THESEUS mission proposal team at the University of Leicester. She is involved in designing and characterising the Soft X-ray Imager instrument, which will allow astronomers to identify and locate high redshift gamma ray bursts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dr Hannah Lerman is a postdoctoral researcher and is part of the ESA M5 THESEUS  mission proposal team at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uniofleicester?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@uniofleicester<\/a>. The team are designing\/characterising the SXI instrument which aims to identify and locate high redshift GRBs. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/InternationalDayOfWomenInScience?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#InternationalDayOfWomenInScience<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7Jn5RWUV3b\">pic.twitter.com\/7Jn5RWUV3b<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Physics &amp; Astronomy, University of Leicester (@PhysicsUoL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhysicsUoL\/status\/1359855616953626624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to instrument scientists, the achievements of a couple of X-ray astronomers were also highlighted during the day, taking advantage of the latest X-ray telescopes already in space to delve into some of the most extreme physics in the universe. Dongyue Li is currently working with data from the XMM-Newton Slew Survey \u2013 including observations from the UoL-built EPIC-pn camera \u2013 to perform a census of transients and variable sources. She is working under the guidance of Associate Prof. Rhaana Starling, who is leading a programme at Lofar to test models of the composition of relativistic outflows in gamma ray bursts observed by the NASA Swift Observatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Dongyue Li is working with the XMM-Newton SLew survey  containg data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uniofleicester?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@uniofleicester<\/a> built EPIC-pn camera. She is using the most recent catalogue to find  transients and variable sources, revealing a picture of the most extreme physics. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/InternationalDayOfWomenInScience?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#InternationalDayOfWomenInScience<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YxBquxdSKr\">pic.twitter.com\/YxBquxdSKr<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Physics &amp; Astronomy, University of Leicester (@PhysicsUoL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhysicsUoL\/status\/1359843206523928578?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Associate Prof. Rhaana Starling is leading a programme at Lofar to test models of the composition of relativistic outflows in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASASwift?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NASASwift<\/a> gamma-ray bursts.  She is a former <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/royalsociety?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@royalsociety<\/a> and a visiting fellow at ASTRON in the Netherlands<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/InternationalDayOfWomenInScience?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#InternationalDayOfWomenInScience<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/p1ZqMx7vJH\">pic.twitter.com\/p1ZqMx7vJH<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Physics &amp; Astronomy, University of Leicester (@PhysicsUoL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhysicsUoL\/status\/1359831386023211008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 11, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Shifting wavelengths to the millimetre and submillimetre domain, Dr Alison Young has also been breaking new ground as part of a team which has found the first direct evidence of disc tearing in a protoplanetary disc, working with observations from the ALMA Observatory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/twitter.com\/AlisonYspace\/status\/1301592882428682241\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In our final post of this series, we&#8217;ll look at the future of astronomy in general, and future and current leaders in our School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":256,"featured_media":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-astro","category-graduates","category-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":775,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/physicsastronomy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}