Pippa Goldschmidt Explained

Pippa Goldschmidt
Nationality:UK and German
Occupation:Writer
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Field:Physics, astronomy
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Language:English
Awards:Suffrage Science Award (2016)

Pippa Goldschmidt is a British fiction writer, formerly based in Edinburgh, Scotland[1] but now living in Germany.

Education

Goldschmidt has a background in science, having completed an undergraduate degree in physics with astronomy at the University of Leeds and a PhD in Astronomy at University of Edinburgh.[2] [3]

Career

After completing her education she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Queen Mary University and Imperial College in London, then joined the civil service fast stream graduate scheme, working at British National Space Centre and Department for Trade and Industry.[4] [5] During her work in government she worked on homelessness policy for the Scottish Government, as well as offshore renewable energy policy for Marine Scotland.[6] [7]

Writing

Goldschmidt's debut novel Falling Sky was published in 2013 and a collection of short stories The Need for Better Regulation of Outer Space in 2015.[8] [9] In 2015 she was the co-editor of I Am Because You Are, a collection of short stories on the theme of relativity, published for the centenary of Einstein's theory of general relativity.[10] [11] She has also been a writer in residence for the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum, the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh, Wigtown Book Festival, the German city of Heidelberg and is currently writer in residence at the University of Edinburgh's science, technology and innovation studies unit.[12] [13] [14]

In 2008 she achieved an MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow.[15]

Publications

Awards and honours

Notes and References

  1. News: Pippa Goldschmidt invited to be Heidelberg's Writer in Residence - Edinburgh City of Literature. 2018-01-26. Edinburgh City of Literature. 2018-10-09. en-GB. https://web.archive.org/web/20181010135013/http://www.cityofliterature.com/pippa-goldschmidt-invited-heidelbergs-writer-residence/. 2018-10-10. dead.
  2. News: Wigtown Book Festival 2012: Q&A with Marek Kukula and Pippa Goldschmidt. Bowie-Sell. Daisy. The Daily Telegraph. 2012-10-03. 2018-10-09. en-GB. 0307-1235.
  3. Web site: A New View of the Universe: Big science for the big society. Science & Technology Facilities Council. 18. 9 October 2018.
  4. Web site: Imperial College London - New vision of star formation. www.imperial.ac.uk. en. 2018-10-09.
  5. Goldschmidt. P.. Miller. L.. 1998-01-01. The UVX quasar optical luminosity function and its evolution. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. en. 293. 1. 107–112. 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01131.x. free . 0035-8711. astro-ph/9709019. 1998MNRAS.293..107G. 18822367.
  6. Web site: Consultation Paper: Homelessness etc (Scotland) Act 2003: Implementation of Section 11. Scottish Government. 2006-12-20. www.gov.scot. en-gb. 2018-10-23.
  7. Web site: Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters Marine Spatial Plan Framework & Regional Locational Guidance for Marine Energy Draft Report. December 2009. 23 October 2018.
  8. News: Pippa Goldschmidt – The Need for Better Regulation of Outer Space. 2015-05-11. The List. 2018-10-09. en-GB.
  9. News: Pippa Goldschmidt -The Falling Sky. 2013-04-10. The List. 2018-10-09. en-GB.
  10. Web site: Imaginative science of Einstein celebrated in short story anthology. Clark. Stuart. 2016-03-08. the Guardian. en. 2018-10-09.
  11. Web site: I Am Because You Are. www.scottishbooktrust.com. en. 2018-10-09.
  12. Web site: Meet the School's writer in residence, Pippa Goldschmidt School of Physics and Astronomy. www.ph.ed.ac.uk. 28 May 2013 . en. 2018-10-09.
  13. Web site: Pippa Goldschmidt. Blake Friedmann. en-GB. 2018-10-23.
  14. News: Who We Are. 2018-05-23. Uncanny Bodies. 2018-10-23. en-US.
  15. Web site: University of Glasgow - Subjects A‑Z - Creative Writing - Alumni. www.gla.ac.uk. en. 2018-10-09.
  16. Web site: Pippa Goldschmidt Poetry Scottish Poetry Library. www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk. en. 2018-10-15.
  17. Web site: Devil Take The Hindmost And 10000 Dundee International Book Prize : News. Dundee. University of. University of Dundee. en. 2018-10-23.
  18. Web site: About the New Writers Awards. www.scottishbooktrust.com. en. 2018-10-23.
  19. News: Award Recognises Women in Science. 2016-03-08. LMS London Institute of Medical Sciences. 2018-10-09. en-GB.
  20. Web site: Pippa Goldschmidt. Pippa Goldschmidt. en-GB. 2018-10-15.

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