Helen Czerski


Helen Czerski is a British physicist, oceanographer, writer, broadcaster, and television presenter. She is the Professor of the Environment and Society in the department of mechanical engineering at University College London. She was previously at the Institute for Sound and Vibration Research at the University of Southampton.
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Early life and education

Czerski was brought up in Altrincham, Greater Manchester, and educated at Altrincham Grammar School for Girls. She graduated from the University of Cambridge where she was a student at Churchill College, Cambridge, with degrees Master of Arts and Master of Science in Natural Sciences (Physics) and a PhD in experimental explosives physics, particularly Research Department Explosive.

Career

Czerski was a regular science presenter for the BBC. Her programmes have included:
She has also appeared on The Museum of Curiosity and is an occasional presenter of the web TV and podcast show Fully Charged. She regularly appears on The Cosmic Shambles Network and co-hosts their podcasts and web series Science Shambles and They've Made Us with Robin Ince. Until September 2024, Czerski was a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal in the column "Everyday Physics". She is the co-host, along with Tom Heap, of Rare Earth, BBC Radio 4's premier show on the environment.

Awards

For her "Everyday Science" column in BBC Focus magazine, Czerski was shortlisted for columnist of the year at the 2014 PPA Awards. In 2018 Czerski won the William Thomson, Lord Kelvin Medal and Prize from the Institute of Physics for her contributions to championing the physics of everyday life to a worldwide audience of millions through TV programmes, a popular science book, newspaper columns, and public talks. Czerski was made an Honorary Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge in 2020. She received an Honorary Doctorate in Science from the University of East Anglia in 2023.
Her books have won numerous awards, including Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life, whose version in Italian translation won the third edition of Premio ASIMOV for the best book in scientific dissemination published in Italy, and Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World, which won the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Writing on Conservation.

Research

Czerski's research focuses on temperature, ocean bubbles, bubble acoustics, air-sea gas transfer and ocean bubble optics.

Publications

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