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Emma Olivia Chapman (née Woodfield)[1] is a British physicist and Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow at Imperial College London.[2] Her research investigates the epoch of reionization. She won the 2018 Royal Society Athena Prize.[3][4] In November 2020 Chapman published her first book, First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time.

Early life and education

Chapman achieved first class honours for a Master of Physics (MPhys) degree in Physics at Durham University in 2010.[5][6] She completed her PhD, Seeing the Light: Foreground Removal in the Dark and Dim Ages,[7] at University College London.[5] 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.[8]

Research and career

Following her PhD, Chapman remained at University College London as a Square Kilometre Array funded postdoctoral researcher.[9] Chapman was awarded a Royal Astronomical Society Research Fellowship in 2013.[5] She won the Institute of Physics Early Career Woman Physicist of the Year Award in 2014.[10] In 2018, Chapman was awarded a Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship by the Royal Society.[11]

Her research investigates the Epoch of Reionisation, the time in the universe when the stars began to radiate light.[12] Chapman works with the Low-Frequency Array telescope (LOFAR).[12][13][14]

In 2017 Chapman was highly commended in the L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards.[15] She was an invited speaker at the Cheltenham Science Festival.[16] She spoke about the first era of stars at the 2018 New Scientist Live.[17][18]

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."[19] As a result of her campaign, University College of London has abandoned non-disclosure settlements.[20]

The 1752 group

She has spoken about bias in science at the Royal Institution, Wellcome Collection and on the BBC.[21][22][23][24] Chapman is a member of The 1752 Group, a lobbying group to end staff-student sexual harassment in academia.[25][26] She was a keynote speaker on the topic at the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) International Conference for Women in Physics.[27] She partnered with the National Union of Students (NUS) to conduct a survey of staff-student sexual harassment.[28] They found that there was widespread misconduct in higher education and that institutions did not adequately support the victims.[29]

Publications

Chapman is author of one book:

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.[30]

Personal life

Chapman had her first child during the last year of her PhD.[31] She has two children.[32]

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