Unbound

Professor Carolin Crawford (1982) read Mathematics at Newnham College, followed by a PhD at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge. She used observations from a wide variety of large telescopes and satellites to investigate the most massive galaxies in the Universe, and this research was carried out alongside, and later eclipsed by, a growing role in the public communication of science. She was the Public Astronomer at the Institute of Astronomy for many years, and her success was recognised with her appointment as the Professor of Astronomy for Gresham College (2011 – 2015).  Carolin is now an Emeritus Fellow of Emmanuel College, where she was a College Lecturer, Tutor and Admissions Tutor.  She has been the guest lecturer on alumni cruises up the Norwegian coast to see the Northern Lights, and has made regular appearances on national radio, most notably as an expert on twenty episodes of BBC4’s In Our Time – including a programme about Eclipses in Dec 2020.  A self-confessed eclipse junkie, the 2027 Egyptian tour will be Carolin’s sixth trip to see a total solar eclipse.