Scientist
Astronomers Professor Michelle Dauberti did not study science at secondary school – but instead it was inspired to learn more about space after using his father’s telescope.
She is now the first woman to appoint UK astronomer Shahi in the 350 -year history of the post, and is part of the team to send an investigation to Jupiter’s icy Moon.
He told BBC News that he expects him to appoint on Wednesday that King Charles III will inspire more women and girls to study science as an official advisor to King Charles III.
The new astronomer Royal said that she wanted to use her new role for “opening the eyes of the people” for the miracles of space.
“I want to join the public, encourage them to what we do in astronomy, but also clarify how important we are for the UK economy,” Prof. Dafri said.
The Pro Dutty is included in one of the most exciting space missions to date: an European Space Agency checks Jupiter’s icy Moon to assess whether they have the ability to support life.
“It would be surprising if there was no life in our solar system,” he laughed and said, he is known with unbridled enthusiasm.
Her journey for Jupiter began when she was ten years old at the age of ten and saw the planet through a telescope, her sister and her father.
“When I got my first scene about Jupiter and four big moon, I was never thinking that I would finish sending equipment to a spacecraft,” he said.
“I am taking myself a pinch when you think about it and I am taking myself a pinch on the fact that I am now astronomer royal!”
The achievement of Professor Dogrti is all more notable because she did not study science at the secondary school in South Africa where she grew up.
“I had an alternative among schools. One of them taught science, but none of my friends were going near it,” he said. “So as a young 13 year old, I thought, I want to go with my friends.”
But the young Professor Dogerti was so good in Maths that he was admitted to a science course in the university.
“Earlier a few years were difficult. It was like learning a new language,” she said.
But she was soon caught and came to Britain to become one of the major space scientists of the country, which showed tremendous courage as well as talent.
“I said yes to the things that I did not know how to do, and I learned as I went,” he told me.
The role of astronomer Shahi is for the construction of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich in 1675. John was the first to fill John Flemsted role from Derby. The job was then mostly to advise the king on using stars to improve navigation in the sea.
Senior Curator of Observatory, Dr. Lewis Dowoy explained that the job developed over the years, becoming one of the country’s most important scientific voices.
“Until the 1800s, astronomer Shahi began to be called to act as a government consultant, so that the railway or bridge or telegraph could be advised on a full range of subjects beyond astronomy,” she said.
“If we move fast for the 20th century, it is more about developing international cooperation, which is why you have British astronomers working in telescopes at Chile, Canary Islands and even James Web Space Telescope.”
In three and a half centuries, 15 people have taken over as the most senior astronomer for all of Britain. But at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh, Professor Catherine Heman has held a similar position as an astronomer Royal for Scotland since 2021.
She was happy to hear about the appointment of Professor Dogerti.
“The title of astronomer Royal for the last 350 years has been organized by a white male astronomer, and has been reflected as to what the astronomical community has seen for a few centuries last few centuries. But things have been changing,” she said.
“Science is becoming more diverse, which we want to answer these big questions, and I am now fully happy that two astronomers in the UK are royal women, showing the fact that science is for all.”
Professor Dogerti herself does not want to make a big deal of the fact that she is the first woman to hold the UK-Wide Post, but she hopes that it will inspire others to follow their footsteps.
“I think this is important. I think when young children especially see someone who feels that they feel that they will never get an opportunity to do so, it changes their mindset a little,” he told BBC News.
Professor Dogrti experienced this when she was the head of the Department of Physics at Imperial College between 2018 and 2024. During that time, the percentage of the first year female undergraduate in the Imperial increased by about 19% to 25%.
“Not a big change,” he said, “but there was a positive change. And I think it is because the students saw that I was in a role that they could be interested in the future”.