Welcome - Opening - Land Acknowledgment

**Speaker:** Dr. Helen Czerksi
 
 
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**Dr. Helen Czerksi** is a physicist, first and foremost, but she’s acquired a few other labels along the way: oceanographer, presenter, author, and bubble enthusiast. She grew up near Manchester, in northwest England, and spent her childhood playing by the canals and along the old railway routes of the early Industrial Revolution. She studied Natural Sciences (Physics) at Churchill College, Cambridge, finishing with a first class degree. A year later, she returned to Cambridge to study for a PhD in experimental explosives physics, motivated by the opportunity to use high-speed photography to explore the physical world further.

After her PhD, she looked for a pathway that would allow her to continue to build that sort of experiment, but with an application in the natural world. That’s when she found out about bubbles and oceans. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego was her door into that world, followed by a postdoc at the Graduate School of Oceanography in Rhode Island. She returned to the UK to start her own research program on the physics of oceanic bubbles, first at the University of Southampton and then at her current academic home, University College London.

Czerski gets particularly excited about the physics of the everyday world and the oceans. The oceans are the heart of the Earth’s engine, the system of atmosphere, rocks, ice, life and ocean that makes up our planetary life support system. Beyond the purely scientific, she is fascinated by the relationship between human civilizations and the oceans, and how these vast expanses of blue have shaped and influenced the structure of human society.

Upon her return to the UK from Rhode Island, she became a regular science presenter for BBC, in addition to her academic work. Since 2017, her column “Everyday Physics” has been a regular feature in the Wall Street Journal. Her book, Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life, published by W. W. Norton Company, received rave reviews from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, and others.
 
 
**Host:**
Chandralekha Singh

Klopsteg Award Lecture, Dr. Helen Czerksi

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