Dr George Dransfield
Having grown up in Uruguay, I unfortunately didn’t get to watch the Sky at Night as a child.
However, our secondary school curriculum back home includes a whole year of Astronomy, and this was what really made me fall in love with the subject.
After graduating with a BSc in Astrophysics from QMUL in 2012, I trained as a teacher at King’s College London. I then got the best job: being paid to share my love of physics and astronomy with students every day.George Dransfield
I moved to England aged 16, knowing full well that I wanted to be a scientist one day. After graduating with a BSc in Astrophysics from QMUL in 2012, I trained as a teacher at King’s College London. I then got the best job: being paid to share my love of physics and astronomy with students every day. I got a bit of an itch to learn something brand new a few years later, and found myself back at university (this time at the University of Birmingham) doing an MRes, and then a PhD in Astrophysics.
I’ve been unbelievably fortunate to travel to some truly fab places as part of my research, and it was my trip to Antarctica at the end of 2021 that first brought me to the Sky at Night. I initially joined as a contributor, but now I’m getting to do some presenting which has been super fun.
When I’m not obsessing over distant worlds, I’m often obsessing about my running stats instead. Running marathons is certainly a time-consuming hobby but there’s something truly badass to me about repeatedly running 26.2 miles on purpose!
