Clare Watt
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Clare Watt is a British space scientist and is currently Professor of Space Physics at the Northumbria University.[1] She was elected vice-president of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2022[2] and has served on the editorial board of Oxford University Press's RAS Techniques and Instruments journal since 2021.[3] She has received numerous awards and honours related to her career and research including the Royal Astronomical Society thesis award.
Watt studied for a BSc in Maths and Physics at the University of Aberdeen from 1994 to 1998. She then obtained a PhD in space plasma physics from St Catharine's College, Cambridge in 2002, working closely with the British Antarctic Survey. Moving to University of Alberta in Canada,[4] she focussed on numerical modelling of auroral electrons. In 2013 she returned to the UK as a lecturer in Space Physics at the University of Reading, focussing on modelling of the Earth's radiation belts. Watt moved to Northumbria University in 2020, to take up the role of Professor of Space Physics.[1]