Part 2 of TED Radio Hour episode: Special Delivery
Astrophysicist Erika Hamden spent 10 years building FIREBall, a telescope that reaches the stratosphere and looks for clues to how stars form. Launching it was more challenging than she ever imagined.
About Erika Hamden
Erika Hamden is an assistant professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Arizona and an assistant astronomer at Steward Observatory. As an astrophysicist, she builds telescopes designed to look deep into space, as well as the sensor technology that make the telescopes more efficient.
Hamden received her bachelor's degree in astronomy and astrophysics from Harvard University. After working as a chef for a year, she then began graduate school at Columbia University, where she earned her Ph.D. She worked as a post doc at Caltech, and was an NSF Astronomy and Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow and the R.A. and G.B. Millikan Prize Postdoctoral Fellow in Experimental Physics at the California Institute of Technology. She has earned numerous awards for her research.
Hamden is a 2019 TED Fellow.
This segment of TED Radio Hour was produced by Matthew Cloutier and edited by Sanaz Meshkinpour. You can follow us on Twitter @TEDRadioHour and email us at [email protected].
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