RAS Women Fellows - Inspiring Science Stories

Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 8 hours ago

MONDAY - 14 Feb 2022 at 12pm

Camille Lorfing - UCL/MSSL Phd student - Plasma physics

Title: Wearing Physics glasses - a fun way of understanding the world through problem solving

This 11 February is the Day of Women and Girls in Science and the IAU is running a campaign for women in astronomy, supported by the RAS. You can find out more about the IAU's campaign for celebrating the Day of Women and Girls in Astronomy at their website.

We are celebrating our RAS women Fellow astronomers and space scientists who will give short talks on what inspires them about being a scientist. We are hosting 30-minute lunchtime chats every day of the week from 14-18 February. Join us at 12pm each day to hear all about their career path journey to astronomy and space science careers.

About the speaker:

I’m a 2nd year PhD student working in Solar and Plasma physics at UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory (Department of Space and Climate physics) on solar electron beams and how they interact with the plasma of the solar wind and solar corona. I graduated in 2020 with an MPhys in Physics with Astrophysics from the University of Manchester where I work on the characterisation of radio pulsars at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics. Before that I studied in France where I followed the Science stream of the French Baccalaureate (2016) specialising in Physics and Chemistry.

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