About Maggie Aderin-Pocock Books
Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock MBE is a space scientist, science communicator, and presenter of the BBC's The Sky at Night. She completed a degree in physics at Imperial College London, where she first realized her love of space telescopes, and went on to specialize in optics, which later formed part of her PhD. After helping to build a spectrograph for Gemini South, one of the biggest telescopes in the world, she continued to work on telescope instruments, including one for JWST. She is president-elect of the British Science Association and an honorary research associate of UCL's Department of Physics and Astronomy. She is the author of numerous books on space, including The Book of the Moon (Abrams Image).