Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Acting • Born 1968-03-09
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.
Filmography
21 credits
The Science of Doctor Who
Movie • 2012
In Orbit: How Satellites Rule Our World
Movie • 2012
Herself - Presenter
Do We Really Need the Moon?
Movie • 2011
Host
Last Swim
Movie • 2025
Self
Finding Father Christmas
Movie • 2025
Self
QI
TV • 2003
Self
The Sky at Night
TV • 1957
Self - Presenter
I Literally Just Told You
TV • 2021
Self - Question Writer
Would I Lie to You?
TV • 2007
Self
Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit
TV • 2016
Pointless Celebrities
TV • 2011
Self
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
TV • 2011
Self - Participant
Michael McIntyre's The Wheel
TV • 2020
Self - Expert
The Infinite Monkey Cage
TV • 2020
Panellist
Richard Osman's House of Games
TV • 2017
Self - Contestant
Strangest Things
TV • 2021
Self - Space Scientist
The Sky at Night
TV • 1957
Alien Files: Reopened
TV • 2024
Self - Physicist & Space Scientist
The One Show
TV • 2006
Self
Doctor Who Confidential
TV • 2005
Self
Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
TV • 1966
Self - Presenter