Speaker profile
Dr Anne-Marie Weijmans
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Summary
Anne-Marie is a Reader in Astrophysics at the University of St Andrews.
Full biography
Anne-Marie Weijmans is a Reader in Astrophysics at the University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on the structure and dynamics of nearby galaxies, and mapping their dark matter haloes. She is the data product manager of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), which has been observing the sky since 1999, and is a resource of astronomical images and spectra both for research and for education.
Anne-Marie is an experienced public speaker, who often gives talks in musea and science festivals, and who gives interdisplinary astronomy workshops at primary schools. Her public talk topics include 'Voyage to the Planets', 'Stars, Constellations and How not to get Lost', 'The Secret Lives of Galaxies', 'The Quest for Dark Matter', and 'The Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and what you can do with it'. For younger audiences and schools, her talks include 'What's in Space?'. School workshop titles are available on request.
Anne-Marie is a member of the Young Academy of Scotland.
