
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
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.
Known for

QI
2003

The Sky at Night
1957

The Sky at Night
1957

The One Show
2006

The Jonathan Ross Show
2011

Pointless Celebrities
2011

Would I Lie to You?
2007

Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
2011

Richard Osman's House of Games
2017

Doctor Who Confidential
2005

Michael McIntyre's The Wheel
2020

Strangest Things
2021

Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit
2016

Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
1966

Artemis: To the Moon and Back
2026

I Literally Just Told You
2021

Finding Father Christmas
2025

Alien Files: Reopened
2024

The Infinite Monkey Cage
2020

Last Swim
2025

Do We Really Need the Moon?
2011

In Orbit: How Satellites Rule Our World
2012