Naomi Rowe-Gurney, a former student at the university, says she was inspired by Dr Aderin-Pocock's career.
A woman who is working at Nasa has spoken of how inspired she was by the appointment of Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock as her former university's chancellor.took on the role at the University of Leicester this monthNaomi Rowe-Gurney, 32, a former student at the university, said she had been inspired by Dr Aderin-Pocock's career.
"Ever since then I was really interested in deep space and black holes in cosmology, before I moved into planetary science."She said that, as a black girl who loved science, coming across Dr Aderin-Pocock presenting the BBC's The Sky At Night had been "amazing". "It was really an inspiration to see her there, and then I got the chance to meet her as well, in Leicester, when she was filming one of her episodes and, like a proper nerd, I asked her to sign my calculator," she said.She said she had also been inspired by friends and family members when she was growing up, including one of her aunts who had done a physics degree.
"I'm helping all the scientists who look at planetary systems, so not just atmospheres, but surfaces, moons and rings." She said it had been her dream to work at the space agency and arrived there in October 2021, after completing a PhD at Leicester, during which she studied the atmospheres of Neptune and Uranus.Follow BBC East Midlands on
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