Dame Maggie Aderin, PhD, is a space scientist, the founder of Science Innovation Ltd., and co-host of the world's longest-running science television program The Sky at Night (BBC). She has a degree in Physics and a PhD. in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College London. 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. Maggie also won the Institute of Physics gold medal for exceptional services to science education and physics communication and was made a Dame in the 2023 New Year's Honours list.Sarah Wild studied physics, electronics, and English literature at Rhodes University, South Africa, and for an MSc in bioethics and health law, before becoming a freelance science journalist. She has also written books, won awards, and run national science desks. Her work has appeared in Nature, Science, Scientific American, and Undark, among others, and she has appeared on the BBC's World Service and the Inside Science program.
