Dr Helen Klus
Dr Helen Klus is a science communicator who has appeared on CNN, BBC Radio 4, and BBC World Service. Klus holds a PhD in Physics and a master’s degree in Philosophy. She can be found on Instagram and Twitter @DrHelenKlus.
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Behind the scenes
You can now listen to this here (thanks to my brother David for making a video) 📻🔭#BlackHoleDay #EventHorizonTelescope #EHTBlackHole https://t.co/JbeuO31xz7
— Dr Helen Klus ✨🔭 (@DrHelenKlus) April 12, 2019
You can listen to this here (starts at ~12:50 pm) 🌊☄️https://t.co/ZNDqMpBmuD
— Dr Helen Klus ✨🔭 (@DrHelenKlus) March 18, 2019
It was a pleasure to talk about it with @CNN earlier, and you can watch the launch here. 🚀☀️https://t.co/PejmEYxdkS
— Dr Helen Klus ✨🔭 (@DrHelenKlus) August 12, 2018
“Dr Helen Klus” says #meteors “will be visible all across the sky everywhere in the Northern Hemisphere.” #PerseidMeteorShower ☄️💫☄️💫☄️💫
— Dr Helen Klus ✨🔭 (@DrHelenKlus) August 12, 2018
https://t.co/Ozfdrrz6qx
"Dr Helen Klus from the Royal Astronomical Society told BBC’s Today programme Mars Jupiter and Saturn will all be visible shortly after the rare ‘Blood Moon’." https://t.co/OuogAYqi0j
— Dr Helen Klus ✨🔭 (@DrHelenKlus) August 4, 2018
You can hear me talking about last Friday's #LunarEclipse on @bbcworldservice’s World Update 📻 (47 mins in)
— Dr Helen Klus ✨🔭 (@DrHelenKlus) July 29, 2018
🌑🌍☀️https://t.co/A7QNfwhZAh
You can now listen me talk about last Friday's #LunarEclipse on @bbcworldservice’s Newsday 📻 (17 mins in)
— Dr Helen Klus ✨🔭 (@DrHelenKlus) July 29, 2018
🌑🌍☀️https://t.co/vVgO48rEmg
You can now listen me talking about Friday's #LunarEclipse on @BBCRadioFoyle 📻(52 mins in)
— Dr Helen Klus ✨🔭 (@DrHelenKlus) July 29, 2018
🌑🌍☀️https://t.co/NcTwVJk2UK
Thanks to @arabnews for this article. It was a pleasure talking to you. I loved the piece and was blown away by the story of Rabab Al-Quidihi, the first certified woman astronomy “trainer” in the Gulf. #WomenInSTEM https://t.co/eCmP2rXjUj
— Dr Helen Klus ✨🔭 (@DrHelenKlus) July 27, 2018
I enjoyed @hannahdev’s piece in today’s @guardian about the #LunarEclipse 🙂
— Dr Helen Klus ✨🔭 (@DrHelenKlus) July 27, 2018
🌑🌍☀️ pic.twitter.com/YqxAazx36O
I had fun discussing the lake on Mars with Victoria Allen yesterday. Scientists think there's liquid water elsewhere in the Solar System, but it's so exciting that this is so close! ✨🌊 pic.twitter.com/6fumwcp2CC
— Dr Helen Klus ✨🔭 (@DrHelenKlus) July 26, 2018
Hey mum, I'm in a magazine! 🌑🌍☀️
— Dr Helen Klus ✨🔭 (@DrHelenKlus) July 25, 2018
Thank you @StylistMagazine for promoting STEM #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/5fKvXp52s4
You can hear me talking about the #LunarEclipse with @jamieeast and @JNRaeside on @talkRADIO 📻 at the link below (at 14:30-15:00 between 21:00 and 27:00)
— Dr Helen Klus ✨🔭 (@DrHelenKlus) July 25, 2018
🌑🌍☀️https://t.co/ZR8jaURmwM
"Dr Helen Klus, an astronomer with the Royal Astronomical Society...said: 'Look at the horizon in the southeast on July 27. About 8.50pm BST the moon will start rising in London and it’s 9.26pm BST if you are in Glasgow.'" 🌑🌍☀️https://t.co/k16v7OTVze
— Dr Helen Klus ✨🔭 (@DrHelenKlus) July 25, 2018
"Dr Helen Klus said: 'amateur astronomy is brilliant because you don’t need anything. You can just go out by yourself and look up' The moon will rise over the horizon in the southeastern skies with the additional bonus of Saturn, Jupiter and Mars"🌑🌍☀️https://t.co/gyLomTPNfJ
— Dr Helen Klus ✨🔭 (@DrHelenKlus) July 25, 2018
"Dr Klus said: 'Look at the horizon in the southeast on July 27'" 🌑🌍☀️https://t.co/9F5YANnnTK
— Dr Helen Klus ✨🔭 (@DrHelenKlus) July 25, 2018
Dr Klus explained: “It’s a lunar eclipse which means the Earth is going to be between the sun and the moon and the light from the sun is going to cause a shadow." Not long now! 🌑🌍☀️ #LunarEclipsehttps://t.co/ouZw4ArA3z
— Dr Helen Klus ✨🔭 (@DrHelenKlus) July 25, 2018
Discussing killer asteroids @esa Fly-eye telescope & @NASA_Orion on the latest @Spaceboffins podcast at @RoyalAstroSoc with @DrHelenKlus @RobertMMassey & Richard Hollingham https://t.co/Ofeo7emVWH pic.twitter.com/6ZsU4zqZEx
— Sue Nelson (@ScienceNelson) March 13, 2018
One click away from spacey goodness... Our latest podcast on @NASA_Orion capsule size & detecting killer asteroids with the @esa Fly-eye telescope. Guests @DrHelenKlus @RobertMMassey https://t.co/M4Fxfnm2M1
— Space Boffins (@Spaceboffins) March 13, 2018
Non-academic Talks
Women and the Stars: How women have shaped our understanding of the universe, Westminster Reference Library, September 2018 and Royal Astronomical Society, October 2018.
Academic Talks
BeXRB 2014, Valencia, Spain, July 2014, a summary of my talk is available here.
National Astronomy Meeting, Portsmouth, UK, June 2014, a summary of my talk is available here.
New Results in X-ray Astronomy, Southampton, UK, September 2013.
Physics at the Magnetospheric Boundary, Geneva, Switzerland, June 2013, a summary of my talk is available here.
Half a century of X-ray Astronomy, Mykonos, Greece, September 2012.
Non-fiction
Why Are There So Few Female Scientists? (2014) The Toast.
Armchair Explorers: how members of the public are taking an active role in the search for other worlds (2011) Wellcome Trust Blog (shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Science Writing Prize, in association with the 'Guardian' and the 'Observer').
Academic publications
Klus, H., 2015, 'Breaking the quantum limit: the magnetic field of neutron stars in extra-galactic Be X-ray binaries', PhD thesis.
Klus, H., Ho, W. C. G., Coe, M. J., Corbet, R. H. D., and Townsend, L. J., 2014, 'Spin period change and the magnetic fields of neutron stars in Be X-ray binaries in the Small Magellanic Cloud', MNRAS, 437, 3863-3882.
Ho, W. C. G, Klus, H., Coe, M. J., and Andersson, N., 2014, 'Equilibrium spin pulsars unite neutron star populations', MNRAS, 437, 3664-3669.
Klus, H., Bartlett, E. S., Bird, A. J., Coe, M. J., Corbet, R. H. D., and Udalski, A., 2013, 'Swift J045106.8-694803; a highly magnetised neutron star in the Large Magellanic Cloud', MNRAS, 428, 3607-3617.
Haberl, F., Sturm, R., Tsujimoto, M., Wada, Q., Ebisawa, K., Miller, E., Coe, M. J., Klus, H., and Beardmore, A. P., 2012, 'SXP523 = Suzaku J0102-7204 = 2XMM J010247.4-720449, a Be/X-ray binary pulsar in the SMC', Astron. Telegram, 4648.
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Last updated 1 January 2020 by Dr Helen Klus