Kate Isaak
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Kate Isaak | |
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| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
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| Institutions | University of Cambridge University of Cardiff European Space Agency |
| Thesis | Low-noise instrumentation and astronomical observations of high- redshift objects at submillimetre wavelengths. (1995) |
Katherine Gudrun Isaak is a British astrophysicist and the Project Scientist for the European Space Agency Characterising Exoplanet Satellite mission (CHEOPS). She is based at European Space Research and Technology Centre.
Isaak was born and raised in the United Kingdom.[1] She is the daughter of two scientists.[1] She attended a mixed comprehensive school where there were more girls than boys in her physics class. She has spoken about how important her high school physics and chemistry teachers were in helping her decide to become a scientist.[2] She attended the University of Cambridge where she was a member of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. Through her time at Cambridge Isaak was supported by W.Owen Saxton, an Emeritus Fellow of Physics who was then Director of Studies.[3] She studied Natural Sciences and specialised in physics in her final year. She remained there for her doctoral research, where she developed instrumentation for submillimetre astronomy. Her project involved investigations into very distant galaxies. After earning her doctorate she moved to Massachusetts, where she worked as a postdoctoral research associate.[1]
