Sarah Louise Bridle is a Professor of Food, Climate and Society at the University of York.
13 Facts About Sarah Bridle
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Sarah Bridle previously served as Professor of extragalactic astronomy and cosmology in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester where she applied statistical techniques to the cosmic microwave background and on the use of weak gravitational lensing in cosmology.
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Sarah Bridle was educated at the University of Cambridge and was awarded several prizes and then a first class Master of Arts degree in Natural Sciences in 1997.
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Sarah Bridle then started doctoral research about dark matter, which was one of the popular areas in cosmology in the mid-1990s.
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Sarah Bridle was awarded a PhD in 2000 on Bayesian methods in cosmology supervised by Mike Hobson.
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Sarah Bridle's research investigates climate change, focusing on a quantitative approach to helping transform food systems.
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Sarah Bridle uses weak gravitational lensing to investigate dark energy because it can reveal the distribution of dark matter.
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Sarah Bridle's research has been funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, the Royal Society and the European Research Council.
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In 2004, Sarah Bridle was appointed a lecturer at University College London and was promoted to Reader in 2008 and professor at the University of Manchester in 2013.
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In 2015, in part inspired by the illness of David J C MacKay, Bridle adopted a new research direction about agriculture, food and sustainability on the planet Earth, making use of data as in her astrophysical research.
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Sarah Bridle leads the greenhouse gas and dietary choices open-source toolkit.
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In 2003 Sarah Bridle was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship for early career scientists which she held until 2012.
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In 2008, Sarah Bridle received a L'Oreal UK and Ireland Fellowship for Women in Science.