1. Anna Margaret Mahala Scaife was born on 20 May 1981 and is a Professor of Radio Astronomy at the University of Manchester and Head of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics Interferometry Centre of Excellence.
21 Facts About Anna Scaife
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Anna Scaife was awarded the Jackson-Gwilt Medal by the Royal Astronomical Society in 2019 in recognition of her contributions to astrophysical instrumentation.
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Anna Scaife earned her master's degree in physics at the University of Bristol in 2003.
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Anna Scaife's research investigates the origin and evolution of large-scale cosmic magnetic fields.
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Anna Scaife was a research scientist at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, where she was involved in testing for the James Webb Space Telescope.
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Anna Scaife joined the University of Southampton as an associate professor in Radio Astronomy.
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Anna Scaife identified anomalous microwave emission coming from regions of star formation.
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Anna Scaife was part of the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager Large Array, using which she observed young stellar objects in the Perseus molecular cloud.
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Anna Scaife moved to the University of Manchester where she was appointed Head of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics Interferometry Centre of Excellence.
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Anna Scaife's research was funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant fellowship from 2013 to 2018.
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From 2016, Anna Scaife led the imaging pipeline group for the Square Kilometre Array science data processor consortium.
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Anna Scaife was the Principal Investigator for the LOFAR magnetism key science project.
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Anna Scaife was part of the commissioning team for the LOFAR telescope, which was a pathfinder instrument for the Square Kilometre Array.
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At Jodrell Bank, Anna Scaife leads the design of the computing for the European SKA Regional Centre, through the big data project AENEAS.
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Anna Scaife has established a UK - South Africa program that develops capacity in big data and data science in South Africa.
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Anna Scaife is interested in using deep learning to study astronomically big data.
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Anna Scaife was part of a team of astrophysicists, including Jane Greaves, who identified nanodiamonds in three infant star systems, V892 Tau, HD 97048 and MWC 297 in the Milky Way.
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Anna Scaife found that the anomalous microwave emission from the Milky Way might be due to hydrogenated nanodiamonds.
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Anna Scaife had previously observed AME from circumstellar discs when working with Dave Green at the University of Cambridge.
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Anna Scaife holds the 2017 Blaauw Chair at the University of Groningen.
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Anna Scaife contributed to the textbook Optical and Digital Image Processing: Fundamentals and Applications.