Carol Anne Oxborrow became interested in physics at age 11 when her mother told her that this subject was about ‘how the universe works’ and that sounded far more exciting than all the other subjects at school. It was an excellent choice and since then she has been a student at Imperial College, London (BSc, ARCS), a graduate student at the University of Delaware (MS, PhD) and a scientific consultant at the Danish Space Research Institute, now DTU Space. Along the way she has worked on projects covering biophysics, metrology, amorphous materials, and a small fleet of space missions: JEM-X on INTEGRAL, HFI on Planck, James Webb and ASIM on the ISS. Since 2015 she has been the head of the ASIM Science Data Centre and since 2022 she has been leader of the DTU Space Atmospheric Electricity research group. As well as space missions and research projects, Carol Anne is kept busy with outreach activities that have taken her to schools, libraries, nursing homes, lawyers offices, as well as many and various science festivals and outreach events. While there is more to understand about ‘how the universe works’ life will always be interesting.
The prize committee will select a winner who will be announced at an award ceremony at the KIF Annual Meeting on June 4th, 2024 taking place at Aud. A, Niels Bohr Institute, Blegdamsvej 17, 2100 Copenhagen.
The winner will be notified in writing in advance and invited to give a talk following the ceremony.
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