Anna Scaife
Anna Scaife | |
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Born | Anna Margaret Mahala Scaife May 20, 1981 |
Education | Loreto Grammar School |
Alma mater | University of Bristol (MPhys) University of Cambridge (PhD) |
Known for | Big data astrophysics |
Awards | Jackson-Gwilt Medal (2018) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Radio astronomy |
Institutions | University of Manchester University of Cambridge Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies University of Southampton |
Thesis | Observing the cosmic microwave background with the Very Small Array (2007) |
Doctoral advisor | Keith Grainge |
Website | www |
Anna Margaret Mahala Scaife (born 20 May 1981) is a Professor of Radio Astronomy at the University of Manchester and Head of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics Interferometry Centre of Excellence.[1] She is the co-director of Policy@Manchester.[2] She was awarded the 2019 Royal Astronomical Society Jackson-Gwilt Medal in recognition of her contributions to astrophysical instrumentation.
Education and early life[]
Scaife wanted to be an archaeologist as a child.[3] She attended school at Loreto Grammar School in Altrincham.[4] She earned her master's degree in physics at the University of Bristol in 2003. For her doctoral studies, Scaife joined the University of Cambridge where she was supervised by .[5] After graduating in 2007, Scaife stayed at Cambridge as a postdoctoral research associate at the Cavendish Laboratory and was a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge.[6]
Research and career[]
Her research considers the origin and evolution of large-scale cosmic magnetic fields.[7] She was a research scientist at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, where she was involved in testing for the James Webb Space Telescope.[4] Scaife joined the University of Southampton as an associate professor in Radio Astronomy.[8] Here she worked on Bayesian data analysis, the Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect and radio astronomy instrumentation.[8] She identified anomalous microwave emission coming from regions of star formation.[9] She was part of the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager Large Array (AMI-LA), using which she observed young stellar objects in the Perseus molecular cloud.[10]
She moved to the University of Manchester where she was appointed Head of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics Interferometry Centre of Excellence.[11] Her research was funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant fellowship from 2013 to 2018.[12] From 2016, Scaife led the imaging pipeline group for the Square Kilometre Array science data processor consortium.[13] She was the Principal Investigator for the LOFAR magnetism key science project. She was part of the commissioning team for the LOFAR telescope, which was a pathfinder instrument for the Square Kilometre Array. At Jodrell Bank, Scaife leads the design of the computing for the European SKA Regional Centre, through the big data project AENEAS.[14][15] She runs two Science and Technology Facilities Council Newton Fund programs that offer bursaries for scientists from Southern Africa and Latin America.[16][17] She has established a UK - South Africa program that develops capacity in big data and data science in South Africa.[18] Scaife is interested in using deep learning to study astronomically big data.[19]
Scaife was part of a team of astrophysicists, including Jane Greaves, who identified nanodiamonds in three infant star systems, , HD 97048 and in the Milky Way.[20][21][22][23] She found that the anomalous microwave emission (AME) from the Milky Way might be due to hydrogenated nanodiamonds.[21][24] Scaife had previously observed AME from circumstellar discs when working with Dave Green at the University of Cambridge.[25][22]
Scaife also holds the 2017 Blaauw Chair at the University of Groningen.[26][27] She contributed to the textbook Optical and Digital Image Processing: Fundamentals and Applications.[28]
Awards and honours[]
Her awards and honours include:
- 2019 Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) Jackson-Gwilt Medal[13]
- 2014 World Economic Forum Top 30 scientists under 40[12][29][30]
References[]
- ^ Anna Scaife's ORCID 0000-0002-5364-2301
- ^ "People - Policy@Manchester". policy.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-01-14.
- ^ "Anna Scaife". SKA Telescope. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- ^ a b "Profile". Big Data Zone. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- ^ Scaife, Anna (2007). Observing the cosmic microwave background with the Very Small Array (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 890155792. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.613275.
- ^ "2016 Keynote Speakers". chpcconf.co.za. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- ^ "Anna Scaife – Bluedot Festival". discoverthebluedot.com. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- ^ a b "Astronomy Group". astro.soton.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- ^ Scaife, Anna M. M. (2013). "Anomalous Microwave Emission from Star Forming Regions". Advances in Astronomy. 2013: 390287. Bibcode:2013AdAst2013E..14S. doi:10.1155/2013/390287.
- ^ Waldram, Elizabeth; Titterington, David; Shimwell, Timothy; Scott, Paul F.; Schammel, Michel P.; Saunders, Richard D. E.; Rodríguez-Gonzálvez, Carmen; Pooley, Guy G.; Perrott, Yvette C. (2011). "AMI-LA radio continuum observations of Spitzer c2d small clouds and cores: Perseus region". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 415 (1): 893–910. arXiv:1101.5514. Bibcode:2011MNRAS.415..893A. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18755.x. ISSN 0035-8711. S2CID 119220088.
- ^ "People | The University of Manchester | Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics". jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- ^ a b "Dark Forces in the Invisible Universe | Studium Generale Groningen". sggroningen.nl. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- ^ a b "RAS Medals 2018" (PDF). ras.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- ^ "AMIGA : SKA-Link: combining knowledge to pioneer Big-Data solutions for SKA Data Centres". amiga.iaa.es. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- ^ "Contact". AENEAS. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- ^ "Programme | EuroScience Open Forum - Programme dynamique v2.0". programme.esof.eu. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- ^ "Newton RCUK-SEA -- Capacity Building in STEM to ensure a sustainable community development and a successful astronomical observatory in Timor". gtr.ukri.org. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- ^ "A UK-Africa Data Science Network: Capturing the SKA-Driven Data Transformation". gtr.ukri.org. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- ^ "Deep Learning for Astronomically Big Data". gtr.ukri.org. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- ^ "VARIOUS INTERNATIONAL MEDIA: Astronomers discover diamond dust shimmering around distant stars | Research Explorer | The University of Manchester". research.manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- ^ a b "Astronomers discover diamond dust shimmering around distant stars". Astronomers discover diamond dust shimmering around distant stars. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- ^ a b Solly, Meilan. "Space Nanodiamonds Found to Be Source of Some Cosmic Microwave Radiation". Smithsonian. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- ^ "Astronomers Find Rapidly Spinning Nanodiamonds in Dust Disks around Young Stars | Astronomy | Sci-News.com". Breaking Science News | Sci-News.com. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- ^ Smith, A. M. S.; Mason, B. S.; Green, D. A.; Frayer, D. T.; Scaife, A. M. M.; Greaves, J. S. (2018). "Anomalous microwave emission from spinning nanodiamonds around stars". Nature Astronomy. 2 (8): 662–667. arXiv:1806.04551. Bibcode:2018NatAs...2..662G. doi:10.1038/s41550-018-0495-z. ISSN 2397-3366. S2CID 76648711. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 June 2018.
- ^ Community, Nature Research Astronomy (2018-06-11). "AME In The Sky With Diamonds". Nature Research Astronomy Community. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- ^ "Anna Scaife – Bluedot Festival". discoverthebluedot.com. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- ^ "Studium Generale | Blaauw Lecture: Dark Forces in the Invisible Universe - Anna Scaife | Events and open days | News and Events | About us | University of Groningen". rug.nl. 2017-09-13. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- ^ Scaife, Anna (2011), "Aperture Synthesis and Astronomical Image Formation", Optical and Digital Image Processing, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, pp. 323–344, doi:10.1002/9783527635245.ch15, ISBN 9783527635245
- ^ "World Economic Forum honours Southampton scientist | STAG Research Centre | University of Southampton". southampton.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- ^ "Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2014 - "Summer Davos"". ERC: European Research Council. 2014-07-16. Retrieved 2019-01-13.
- Jodrell Bank Observatory
- Women astrophysicists
- Women astronomers
- British women academics
- British women physicists
- People from Altrincham
- Alumni of the University of Bristol
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- 1981 births
- Living people
- Radio astronomers
- 21st-century British astronomers
- 21st-century British physicists
- 21st-century British women scientists