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.
Acting
TV
QI
as Self
2003
TV
Would I Lie to You?
as Self
2007
TV
Doctor Who Confidential
as Self
2005
TV
The One Show
as Self
2006
TV
Richard Osman's House of Games
as Self - Contestant
2017
TV
The Jonathan Ross Show
as Self - Guest
2011
TV
Pointless Celebrities
as Self
2011
TV
The Sky at Night
as Self - Presenter
1957
TV
I Literally Just Told You
as Self - Question Writer
2021
TV
The Sky at Night
1957
TV
Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit
as Self
2016
Movie
Last Swim
as Self
2025
TV
Michael McIntyre's The Wheel
as Self - Expert
2020
TV
Strangest Things
as Self - Space Scientist
2021
Movie
Do We Really Need the Moon?
as Host
2011
TV
Celebrity Antiques Road Trip
as Self - Participant
2011
TV
Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
as Self - Presenter
1966
Movie
Finding Father Christmas
as Self
2025
Movie
Artemis: To the Moon and Back
as Self
2026
Movie
In Orbit: How Satellites Rule Our World
as Herself - Presenter
2012
TV
The Infinite Monkey Cage
as Panellist
2020
TV
Alien Files: Reopened
as Self - Physicist & Space Scientist
2024
Movie
The Science of Doctor Who
2012