
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
Born: 1968-03-09
Place of birth: Islington, London, England, UK
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

The Sky at Night
1957

Doctor Who Confidential
2005

QI
2003

Do We Really Need the Moon?
2011

Would I Lie to You?
2007

Artemis: To the Moon and Back
2026

I Literally Just Told You
2021

Alien Files: Reopened
2024

The Infinite Monkey Cage
2020

Strangest Things
2021

Finding Father Christmas
2025

Last Swim
2025

Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit
2016

Pointless Celebrities
2011

Richard Osman's House of Games
2017

In Orbit: How Satellites Rule Our World
2012

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011

Michael McIntyre's The Wheel
2020