Catherine Heymans

Catherine Elizabeth Heymans FRSE (born 1978) is a British astrophysicist, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, and a professor at the University of Edinburgh based at the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh. Quotes During my undergraduate course in physics at the University of Edinburgh, we were getting a bit bogged down in it, and our lecturer said: "Let’s just take a break, because a really exciting scientific paper has come out today. https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/astronomer-royal-scotland My research has been funded by taxpayers throughout my whole life, so I have always been a keen science communicator. I’m not going to stop the day job with the research because I haven’t solved it. https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/astronomer-royal-scotland External links Category:Women scientists from England Category:Physicists from England Category:University of Edinburgh faculty Category:University of Oxford alumni Category:Astronomers from England Category:1978 births Category:Women born in the 1970s