Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is an associate professor of physics and astronomy and core faculty in women's and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire. She is the author of the new book The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry and the Cosmic Dream Boogie . A columnist for New Scientist and Physics World , she conducts award-winning theoretical physics research on dark matter, the early universe and neutron stars, while also researching Black feminist science studies. Her first book, The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred , won the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science and Technology, the 2022 Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science and a 2022 Josephine Miles Award from PEN Oakland. Born in Los Angeles, she has roots spanning from Christ Church, Barbados, to Kilburn, London. Q1: Why are you excited to be part of New Scientist Live this year? After writing a column for New Scientist for almost a decade, I’m excited to actually talk to New