{"id":818,"date":"2023-04-23T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-23T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.am.qub.ac.uk\/wp\/antimatter\/?p=818"},"modified":"2025-02-21T15:11:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T15:11:21","slug":"dermot-hosts-ni-science-festival-keynote-speaker-dr-maggie-aderin-pocock-at-a-sold-out-mac-theatre-in-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/2023\/04\/23\/dermot-hosts-ni-science-festival-keynote-speaker-dr-maggie-aderin-pocock-at-a-sold-out-mac-theatre-in-belfast\/","title":{"rendered":"Dermot hosts NI Science Festival keynote speaker, Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock at a sold-out MAC theatre in Belfast."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dermot, as Chair of IOP Ireland, had the great pleasure of hosting and introducing renowned space scientist<\/strong> and professional science communicator and broadcaster Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock<\/a> for her keynote talk at the 2023 Northern Ireland Science Festival to a sold out MAC theatre Belfast<\/a>. Dermot was accompanied on stage for the introduction by his 5-year old daughter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The IOP Ireland supported the event in partnership with the NISF. It was a fantastic event: Maggie spoke beautifully addressing key questions of astrophysics detailed in her latest book “Am I made of Stardust”, and we had many excellent questions from the budding scientists in the packed audience. Maggie also kindly spent time afterwards signing her new book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Space scientist, science communicator and presenter Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, with Dermot and his daughter at the keynote Northern Ireland Science Festival talk “Am I made of Stardust”

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Dermot and his daughter hosted and introduced Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock for the keynote Northern Ireland Science Festival event “Am I made of Stardust”<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A sold-out MAC Theatre in Belfast!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dermot, as Chair of IOP Ireland, had the great pleasure of hosting and introducing renowned space scientist and professional science communicator and broadcaster Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock for her keynote talk at the 2023 Northern Ireland Science Festival to a sold out MAC theatre Belfast. Dermot was accompanied on stage for the introduction by his 5-year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qub.ac.uk\/antimatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}