Helen Czerski
Helen Czerski

Physicist  |  Oceanographer  |  Broadcaster

Helen Czerski

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Welcome…

I’m a physicist with a love for the natural world, and I care deeply about exploring the ideas and challenges in the physical world around us. Even the most familiar daily objects can open the door to the way the universe ticks, and I think that everyone should feel comfortable in playing with that world. My twin passions in physics are the under-appreciated ingenuity of the everyday world and the physical engine of Earth: our atmosphere and oceans. My own research focusses on the physics of the ocean surface, especially the bubbles formed by breaking waves. I’ve lived and worked all over the place, but my academic home is now the fantastic Department of Mechanical Engineering at University College London.

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Ambassador for National Oceanography Centre
Ambassador for National Oceanography Centre

The United Kingdom National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has announced eight incredible new ambassadors…

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2021 Klopsteg Memorial Lecture Award
2021 Klopsteg Memorial Lecture Award

The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) announced today that Helen Czerski, University College London, London, England, is the 2021 recipient of the Klopsteg Memorial Lecture Award…

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Baillie Gifford Prize judge
Baillie Gifford Prize judge

Sunday Times literary editor Andrew Holgate will chair the Baillie Gifford Prize judging panel for the 2021 awards.

Andrew Holgate is joined by award winning novelist Sara Collins, the physicist, oceanographer, writer and broadcaster Dr Helen Czerski, the biographer and critic Kathryn Hughes, author and TV and radio presenter Johny Pitts, and historian and writer Dominic Sandbrook…

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Nine perspectives on the future of Planet Earth
Nine perspectives on the future of Planet Earth

The biggest difficulty of climate change is that the challenges and choices are complicated. Where’s the simple clear way to look at things that will make the decisions easy? Well, maybe there isn’t just one way to see things, and maybe that’s ok.

We (Chris Jackson, Helen Czerski & Tara Shine) have had lots of opportunities to think about this as we prepare our Royal Institution Christmas Lectures for 2020. We all feel that being able to understand multiple complementary perspectives is critical, and so we have each picked three to help you consider our present and our future on Planet Earth…

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Helen on TV

Helen’s enthusiasm for science can often be seen on screen, in a wide range of documentaries exploring the many way in which physics touches our lives.

Books & Writing

The beauty of language offers a wonderful way of sharing the perspectives that science offers. Helen loves words and the doors that they open, and writes regularly about physics. Her first book was published in 2016.

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