Dr. Juliet Pickering

Biography

Juliet Pickering is a Professor of Experimental Physics at Imperial College London, where she leads the Spectroscopy Laboratory in the Department of Physics. She completed her PhD in Physics at Wadham College, Oxford, in 1994, and has since contributed significantly to the fields of laboratory astrophysics and atmospheric physics. Her research focuses on the use of spectroscopy to obtain new atomic and molecular data critical for astronomical studies, helping to deepen the understanding of stellar evolution and exoplanet formation. Additionally, she conducts atmospheric physics research using the TAFTS instrument to investigate water vapor and clouds' impact on the Earth’s radiation balance and climate change. Her work has included brief tenures at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and Lund University. She held a Royal Society University Research Fellowship from 1998 to 2002. Juliet continues to mentor PhD candidates and leads research campaigns aimed at exploring atmospheric phenomena from aircraft at altitudes between 1,000 and 10,000 meters.

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