Speaker profile
Dr Victoria Fawcett
PhD
Available for booking
Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England
Will travel anywhere in the UK
Research Astronomer
Science Communicator
Summary
Dr Vicky Fawcett is an Astronomer at the European Southern Observatory.
Full biography
I am an astronomy Fellow at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Garching, Munich where I study quasars: extremely bright galaxies powered by supermassive black holes. I am part of two major astronomy collaborations: the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), an optical spectrograph on the Mayall telescope in Arizona, and the Multi-object Optical and Near-IR spectrograph (MOONS), an infrared spectrograph soon to be installed on the Very Large Telescope in Chile.
Outside of research, I am passionate about astronomy outreach and love talking to the public about space, having given many talks at schools, science festivals, museums, and astronomical societies.
Happy to give virtual talks since I am now based in Germany, although I visit the UK often.
