Martin Archer
Dr Martin Archer is an award winning physicist, science writer and one of the UK’s leading science presenters. Martin is well-known both nationally and internationally, having presented national radio shows on Kiss FM for six years and regularly appearing on television (BBC, ITV, Sky) to discuss the latest science stories. He also writes and consults for the vSauce YouTube channels and has regularly written and presented for various BBC online videos including James May’s HeadSqueeze and The Story of Now.
Martin gained his PhD in Space Plasma Physics at Imperial College London studying the dynamic interaction of the solar wind with Earth’s magnetic field and, following postdoctoral research, joined Queen Mary University of London. Passionate about Physics and engaging audiences with the subject, Martin’s unique approach to outreach has included inventing the gestural DJ performance “WiiJing”, the “DJ Physics” stage show and a citizen science project on listening to waves in space.
Martin Archer
As you may know from my channel, I think that turning satellite data of space waves into actual audible sound can help us space scientists in loads of ways. Me and collaborators have been trying out some new techniques, but we need your help! Tell us which clips sound the best and why in this quick survey imperial.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_295iuL4yxfaQ… *Thanks!*
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Martin Archer
In a new study we found that solar wind impulses excite surface waves on the boundary of the magnetosphere that surprisingly "go against the flow", forming a stationary wave that persists longer than expected. Here's a video hosted on @NASAgovVideo of the simulations we used and you can find out more at: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/themis-researche…
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Last week I was at the Underbelly Festival in London for Fun Kids Science Weekly Live. I did a space Q&A, here’s one of the questions posed by the audience: https://youtu.be/4zOJYLII9y0
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Landing tomorrow on my channel will be a short-film set to a spoken word track that I collaborated on with poet Shareefa Energy. Come along to the launch tonight at 19:30 BST for all the other poems and Q&As www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/experimental-words-tickets-…
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Last night I did a live interview and Q&A for #ImperialLates which you can watch back here.
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I'll have TWO videos out later today announcing a new space discovery I contributed to!
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I was debating about alien life this morning on British TV, you can watch it here 🤣
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Throughout last month I was co-hosting a podcast series about the moon landings and the potential 50 years of space exploration ahead of us. ICYMI check it here:
theconversation.com/uk/topics/to-the-moon-and-beyo…
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Earlier this month I was at the National Astronomy Meeting and presented the reasoning behind some of my YouTube videos using pop culture as a hook to science rather than making straight science videos. The Royal Astronomical Society interviewed me about it, which you can watch here
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I am working on a new video... but I don't know when it'll be ready. The edit is complicated as you can see (I didn't figure out cloning).
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