Karen Aplin
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Karen Aplin is a British atmospheric and space physicist. She is currently a professor at the University of Bristol.[1][2] Aplin has made significant contributions to interdisciplinary aspects of space and terrestrial science, in particular the importance of electrical effects on planetary atmospheres.[3][4][5] She was awarded the 2021 James Dungey Lectureship of the Royal Astronomical Society.[6]
After attending The High School, Gloucester, Aplin completed a BSc in Natural Sciences at Durham University in 1997.[7] She was president of Durham University Orchestral Society and received the Norah C. Bowes bequest for the arts.[8] She completed her PhD in experimental atmospheric physics in the Department of Meteorology at the University of Reading in 2000. She took up research posts at the University of Hertfordshire and the STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, working on aspects of space and atmospheric instrumentation, before becoming head of the physics laboratories at Oxford University in 2009. In 2018 she moved to the University of Bristol.