The Universe has a lot to tell us and, so far, we have not been paying attention. Optical astronomy steals the headlines, producing iconic images. But what is waiting for us in plain sight, if we can just construct a different kind of ‘eye’? 

In this talk, Dr Emma Chapman takes us on a journey across both time and space, utilising an array of radio observatories from around the world, and the space-based infra-red James Webb Space Telescope.

It’s time to close our eyes and start listening to the skies.

Dr Emma Chapman is a Royal Society research fellow based at the University of Nottingham and is among the world’s leading researchers in search of the first stars to light up our Universe. Emma uses large radio telescope arrays such as LOFAR to search for the tiny, signal of the first stars but she is also interested in applying her signal processing techniques to search for technosignatures from extra-terrestrial civilisations. Emma published her first popular science book, ‘First Light’, in 2020 and her second, third and fourth books are now in progress, sometimes all at once.