Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE
Biography
Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock is a Commissioner for the Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities.
Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE is an award-winning space scientist, broadcaster and author who has worked with several educational institutions to promote the study of STEM subjects.
She holds a degree in Physics and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College.
Her acclaimed work has ranged from making novel, bespoke, scientific instruments including hand-held land mine detectors and optical sub-systems for spacecraft, to co-hosting the BBC mainstay astronomy programme The Sky at Night.
As a Science Educator and the founder of Science Innovation Ltd, she has engaged some 350,000 school children, mainly in UK inner-city schools, but also around the world. She credits her deep passion for science as the tool that allowed her to break through social mobility barriers.
She received an MBE in 2009 for services to science and science education.