Carolin Crawford

Carolin Crawford
Residence	Cambridge
Nationality	British
Fields	astronomy
Institutions	University of Cambridge Gresham College
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Thesis	The detection of distant cooling flows (1988)
Doctoral advisor	Andrew Fabian

Carolin Susan Crawford is a British communicator of science, astrophysicist researcher, lecturer and Public Astronomer based at the Institute of Astronomy and Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Crawford received a BA Hons in Mathematics at Newnham College, Cambridge in 1985. In 1988 she received her PhD from Newnham College and the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge.

She progressed through a series of postdoctoral and research fellowships at Balliol College, Oxford, the Institute of Astronomy, Trinity Hall and Newnham College, University of Cambridge. From 1996 to 2007 she was a Royal Society Research Fellow.

In 2004 she was appointed as a Fellow and College Lecturer at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where she is now also the undergraduate Admissions Tutor for the Physical Sciences. She currently holds this position in conjunction with her role as Outreach Officer at the Institute of Astronomy, which she first took on in 2005.

She held the post of Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College from 2011 to 2015, a position in which she delivered free public lectures on astronomy and astrophysics in the City of London.

Crawford's "primary research interests are in combining X-ray, optical and near-infrared observations to study the physical processes occurring around massive galaxies at the core of clusters of galaxies. In particular, she observes the complex interplay between the hot intra-cluster medium, filaments of warm ionized gas, cold molecular clouds, star formation and the radio plasma flowing out from the central supermassive black hole."

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