How do you go from being a curious child to a professional cosmologist, chasing the secrets of gravity and defying and redefining how it works? Here, PUP Speaks speaker Claudia de Rham explores how mankind’s curiosity for the workings of the natural world have impacted the way we interact with this unifying force, and how gravity鈥攚hich effects all of us every day鈥攈as shaped her life.
Claudia de Rham is a theoretical physicist based at Imperial College London. Her work at the interface of gravity, cosmology and particle physics won her the Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in 2020. She is tireless campaigner against the underrepresentation of girls in physics and frequently speaks in schools and for other organisations about diversity in the sciences.