Emma_Chapman

Emma Chapman

Emma Chapman

British physicist and Royal Society Research Fellow

Emma Olivia Chapman (née Woodfield)[1] is a British physicist and Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow at Imperial College London.[3] Her research investigates the epoch of reionization. She won the 2018 Royal Society Athena Prize.[4][5] In November 2020 Chapman published her first book, First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time.

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Early life and education

Chapman achieved first class honours for a Master of Physics (MPhys) degree in Physics at Durham University in 2010.[6][7] She completed her PhD, Seeing the Light: Foreground Removal in the Dark and Dim Ages,[8] at University College London.[6] She won the University College London Chris Skinner Department of Physics and Astronomy Thesis Prize.[1] Chapman became concerned about PhD culture and how it impacts women.[9]

Research and career

Following her PhD, Chapman remained at University College London as a Square Kilometre Array funded postdoctoral researcher.[10] Chapman was awarded a Royal Astronomical Society Research Fellowship in 2013.[6] She won the Institute of Physics Early Career Woman Physicist of the Year Award in 2014.[11] In 2018, Chapman was awarded a Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship by the Royal Society.[12]

Her research investigates the Epoch of Reionisation, the time in the universe when the stars began to radiate light.[13] Chapman works with the Low-Frequency Array telescope (LOFAR).[13][14][15]

In 2017 Chapman was highly commended in the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards.[16] She was an invited speaker at the Cheltenham Science Festival.[17] She spoke about the first era of stars at the 2018 New Scientist Live.[18][19]

Chapman brought a successful lawsuit against University College London for sexual harassment through the law firm of Ann Olivarius. She settled the case for £70,000 and then campaigned against the use of gag-orders or "non-disclosure settlements."[20] As a result of her campaign, University College of London has abandoned non-disclosure settlements.[21]

The 1752 group

She has spoken about bias in science at the Royal Institution, Wellcome Collection and on the BBC.[22][23][24][25] Chapman is a member of The 1752 Group, a lobbying group to end staff-student sexual harassment in academia.[26][27] She was a keynote speaker on the topic at the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) International Conference for Women in Physics.[28] She partnered with the National Union of Students (NUS) to conduct a survey of staff-student sexual harassment.[29] They found that there was widespread misconduct in higher education and that institutions did not adequately support the victims.[30]

Publications

Chapman is author of one book:

  • First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time. Bloomsbury Sigma. 2020. ISBN 978-1472962928. OCLC 1139379900.

Awards and honours

In 2018, Chapman was awarded the Royal Society Athena Prize for her work to end staff-student sexual harassment and bullying in academia.[31]

Personal life

Chapman had her first child during the last year of her PhD.[32] She has two children.[33]

References

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    Chapman, Emma Olivia (2014). Seeing the first light: a study of the Dark and Dim Ages. ucl.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University College London. OCLC 894606246. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.626831. Free access icon
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    Yatawatta, S.; de Bruyn, A. G.; Brentjens, M. A.; Labropoulos, P.; Pandey, V. N.; Kazemi, S.; Zaroubi, S.; et al. (2013). "Initial deep LOFAR observations of epoch of reionization windows". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 550: A136. arXiv:1301.1630. Bibcode:2013A&A...550A.136Y. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201220874. ISSN 0004-6361. S2CID 7637377.
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    Chapman, Emma; Abdalla, Filipe B.; Harker, Geraint; Jelić, Vibor; Labropoulos, Panagiotis; Zaroubi, Saleem; Brentjens, Michiel A.; de Bruyn, A. G.; Koopmans, L. V. E. (2012). "Foreground removal using FastICA: a showcase of LOFAR-EoR". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 423 (3): 2518–2532. arXiv:1201.2190. Bibcode:2012MNRAS.423.2518C. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21065.x. ISSN 0035-8711. S2CID 73608064.
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    Wade, Jessica (6 March 2017). ""On my astronomical scales, things are changing: women are being let in"". Imperial News. Imperial College London. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
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