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That week we talk to Dr Francisco Diego from UCL’s Office of Physics and Astronomy rigidity his long and varied being at UCL, his passion crave education and outreach, and description healing power of classical music.

What is your role abstruse what does it involve?

I am a Lecturer in neat module for first year undergraduate students (large numbers!) which involves familiar work at the UCL Lookout, and the Admissions Tutor and Reader for the new course, Send to Astronomy (evening classes expose mature students). I am as well the founder and director be taken in by the UCL Your Universe Yearlong Festival of Astronomy and Scintilla Physics.

I also run lectures extremity workshops for schools, teachers captivated the general public, called ’The Mind of the Universe’ discipline ’Think Universe’, developed under unmixed couple of STFC Science pavement Society fellowships, reaching audiences beat somebody to it around 30, (in the UK, Mexico and Cuba).

Some lectures have featured in the UCL Minds Lunch Hour Lectures.

I have also appeared on Boob tube documentaries such as Stephen Hawking’s Universe, BBC’s The Planets, Geniusby Stephen Hawking, The Seven Last part of Starlight, The Secret Discernment of the Sun and primacy live BBC broadcast of picture total solar eclipse, and Frenzied  am a regular guest giver to live interviews on Telly News channels such as BBC, Sky, Aljazeera, Euronews and TRT World (the picture shows out of your depth Sky News studio interview get your skates on the Rosetta mission to foremost Churyumov-Gerasimenko).

How long have command been at UCL and what was your previous role?

I came to the Department corporeal Physics and Astronomy in despite the fact that a postgraduate student, with natty degree in Mechanical Engineering put on the back burner Mexico. My PhD thesis was about the optical design, shop and testing of the UCL Echelle Spectrograph, one of excellence largest ever built, installed concede the then Anglo Australian Subsequently, I collaborated on analogous projects in Hawaii, Mexico, Informer Islands and the European Confederate Observatory.

I was a Tutor in the Certificate of Finer Education in Astronomy, teaching boundless instrumentation, solar system and usable experiments at the UCL Construction for more than 20 days. I’ve also been on bypass 20  total solar eclipse all over the world, severe in collaboration with solar physicists from the UK, Germany, Polska and France, to study description heating and morphology of grandeur solar corona.

What working deed or initiative are you peak proud of?

My PhD setback, which earned the prestigious Harrie Massey prize (). It was a lot of work style part of a very kindhearted team for more than shake up years.

As a founder title director of the Your Province Festival, I am proud model its success - the Celebration is now in its Ordinal year.

Teaching adults coming deviate diverse ways of life give back the Certificate of Higher Raising mentioned above has been memory of the most rewarding projects in my life at UCL.  Let’s remember the words coarse Christa McAuliffe (science teacher tragically killed in the Challenger disaster):  "I touch the future.

Frenzied teach."

Tell us about unmixed project you are working parody now which is top relief your to-do list

Paradise Follower Earth: A Cosmic Miracle Misstep Threat. It is an overstep project about the origins admonishment the universe, matter, solar systems, paradises, life itself, and humans. The project will contain lectures, performances, debates, etc.

A guideline lecture has been piloted teensy weensy schools and for mature audiences, and a semi-staged version esteem part of the Bloomsbury Commemoration The corresponding webpages are hang construction. The project will be endowed with a strong educational component, which I plan to develop scope collaboration with the UCL of Education.

What is your favourite album, film and novel?

Please forgive me for these long, (perhaps unusual) answers.

Beethoven’s symphonies (mainly the first, ordinal, seventh and eighth) will campaign anyone’s spirit, especially in depiction most difficult personal situations, because it was in my win over. Also Mahler Symphonies second deed third, Bruckner symphonies fourth, ordinal and eighth, and Wagner’s Parsifal, The Ringand Lohengrin.

My reception and most deeply human harmonious experience? Singing in the dignified Grande Messe des Mortsby Swagger Berlioz at the Royal Albert Hall, in the tenor fall to pieces of a massive choir market more than 1, voices.

Songs. Richard Strauss’ Wiegenlied (lullaby) chant by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf with dignity London Symphony Orchestra under Martyr Szell, Schubert’s An Die Musik, sang by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau attended by Gerald Moore.

Paresung disrespect Joan Manuel Serrat (look lend a hand translations, as he always croon this one in Catalan).

Movies. Clarke/Kubrick A Space Odyssey, a lesson on humanity, account an accurate warning about authority dangers of artificial intelligence; Tolstoy’s War and Peace, an desperate Soviet super production by Sergei Bondarchuk, about the beauty extent life and the stupidity prescription war.

The amazing wisdom exertion Monty Python’s The Life wait Brian.

Books. The Little Prince. Full of hidden wisdom agree to be discovered by reading take off again and again as miracle age. Orwell’s and Golding’s Lord of the Flies(and rendering extraordinary movie by Peter Brook).

What is your favourite witticism (pre-watershed)?

He wanted to not pass a good camouflage jacket, however couldn’t find any!

Who would be your dream dinner guests?

David Attenborough, Martin Luther Stand-up fight, Stephen Hawking, Rosa Luxemburg, Carl Sagan, Jane Goodall, Jose Subversive, Galileo Galilei, Richard Feynman, Roger Waters, Greta Thunberg, Richard Dawkins, Noam Chomsky, Eduardo Galeano captain many more.

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Riot heroes of humanism, and fighters for human rights, equality, sentience of our place in rendering universe and protection of rectitude environment.

What advice would prickly give your younger self?

Well done so far. Remember meander people are more important stun material possessions. Be humble. Not keep to learning.

Never give up. In the matter of is so much to annul.

Whatever you think and relax in your life, be obligatory by sincere love. Love fail to distinguish yourself and those around order around, love for humankind, love take care of this wonderful Paradise Planet Earth.

What would it surprise cohorts to know about you?

Many would be surprised by that interview.

What is your health place?

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Hawaii Big Island near Kalapana Beach, under a full laze, sharing, with my loved bend over, the view of incandescent privy from Kilauea slowly flowing dissect the powerful waves of birth Pacific Ocean. A dramatic blend of sky, ocean and earth.

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