Pippa Goldschmidt
NationalityBritish
Alma mater
OccupationWriter
AwardsSuffrage Science Award (2016)
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics, astronomy
Institutions
Writing career
LanguageEnglish
Notable works
  • The Falling Sky (2015)
  • The Need for Better Regulation of Outer Space (2015)
  • I Am Because You Are (2015)
Websitewww.pippagoldschmidt.co.uk

Pippa Goldschmidt is a British fiction writer, formerly based in Edinburgh, Scotland[1] but now living in Germany.

Education

Goldschmidt has a background in science, having completed an undergraduate degree in physics with astronomy at the University of Leeds and a PhD in Astronomy at University of Edinburgh.[2][3]

Career

After completing her education she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Queen Mary University and Imperial College in London, then joined the civil service fast stream graduate scheme, working at British National Space Centre and Department for Trade and Industry.[3][4][5] During her work in government she worked on homelessness policy for the Scottish Government, as well as offshore renewable energy policy for Marine Scotland.[6][7]

Writing

Goldschmidt's debut novel Falling Sky was published in 2013 and a collection of short stories The Need for Better Regulation of Outer Space in 2015.[8][9] In 2015 she was the co-editor of I Am Because You Are, a collection of short stories on the theme of relativity, published for the centenary of Einstein's theory of general relativity.[10][11] She has also been a writer in residence for the ESRC Genomics Policy and Research Forum, the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh, Wigtown Book Festival, the German city of Heidelberg and is currently writer in residence at the University of Edinburgh's science, technology and innovation studies unit.[1][2][12][13][14]

In 2008 she achieved an MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow.[15]

Publications

  • The Falling Sky (2013)
  • The Need for Better Regulation of Outer Space (2015)
  • I Am Because You Are (2015)[16]

Awards and honours

References

  1. 1 2 "Pippa Goldschmidt invited to be Heidelberg's Writer in Residence - Edinburgh City of Literature". Edinburgh City of Literature. 26 January 2018. Archived from the original on 10 October 2018. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  2. 1 2 Bowie-Sell, Daisy (3 October 2012). "Wigtown Book Festival 2012: Q&A with Marek Kukula and Pippa Goldschmidt". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  3. 1 2 "A New View of the Universe: Big science for the big society". Science & Technology Facilities Council. p. 18. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  4. ↑ "Imperial College London - New vision of star formation". www.imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  5. ↑ Goldschmidt, P.; Miller, L. (1 January 1998). "The UVX quasar optical luminosity function and its evolution". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 293 (1): 107–112. arXiv:astro-ph/9709019. Bibcode:1998MNRAS.293..107G. doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.1998.01131.x. ISSN 0035-8711. S2CID 18822367.
  6. ↑ Scottish Government (20 December 2006). "Consultation Paper: Homelessness etc (Scotland) Act 2003: Implementation of Section 11". www.gov.scot. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  7. ↑ "Pentland Firth and Orkney Waters Marine Spatial Plan Framework & Regional Locational Guidance for Marine Energy Draft Report" (PDF). December 2009. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  8. ↑ "Pippa Goldschmidt – The Need for Better Regulation of Outer Space". The List. 11 May 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  9. ↑ "Pippa Goldschmidt -The Falling Sky". The List. 10 April 2013. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  10. ↑ Clark, Stuart (8 March 2016). "Imaginative science of Einstein celebrated in short story anthology". the Guardian. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  11. ↑ "I Am Because You Are". www.scottishbooktrust.com. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  12. ↑ "Meet the School's writer in residence, Pippa Goldschmidt | School of Physics and Astronomy". www.ph.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  13. ↑ "Pippa Goldschmidt". Blake Friedmann. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  14. ↑ "Who We Are". Uncanny Bodies. 23 May 2018. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  15. ↑ "University of Glasgow - Subjects A‑Z - Creative Writing - Alumni". www.gla.ac.uk. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  16. ↑ "Pippa Goldschmidt | Poetry | Scottish Poetry Library". www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
  17. ↑ Dundee, University of. "Devil Take The Hindmost And 10000 Dundee International Book Prize : News". University of Dundee. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  18. ↑ "About the New Writers Awards". www.scottishbooktrust.com. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  19. ↑ "Award Recognises Women in Science". LMS London Institute of Medical Sciences. 8 March 2016. Retrieved 9 October 2018.
  20. ↑ "Pippa Goldschmidt". Pippa Goldschmidt. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
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