The Academy's Fellowship represents the nation's best engineering researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, business and industry leaders.
Dame Maggie Aderin-Pocock is a renowned space scientist and science communicator, best known as co-host of the BBC's The Sky at Night since 2014.
Her career spans academia and industry, including work on missile warning systems for the UK Ministry of Defence, landmine detection tools, and instrumentation for the James Webb Space Telescope and Aeolus climate satellite. From 1999 to 2005, she developed a spectrograph for the Gemini Observatory in Chile.
In 2004, she founded Science Innovation Ltd., inspiring over half a million people globally through public engagement, with particular focus on underrepresented groups in STEM. Dame Maggie is a BAFTA-nominated presenter and award-winning author -- her children's book Am I Made of Stardust? won a Royal Society prize.
Dame Maggie is Chancellor of the University of Leicester and holds honorary doctorates from more than 10 UK universities. She is a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and an ambassador for Made by Dyslexia and the International Rescue Committee.