Sarah Bridle
British astrophysicist
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Bridle is a patron of Humanists UK.
Education
Bridle was brought up in Gloucestershire where her father was involved with computers and artificial intelligence (AI). She was educated at the University of Cambridge and was awarded several prizes and then a first class Master of Arts degree in Natural Sciences in 1997. Bridle then started doctoral research about dark matter, which was one of the popular areas in cosmology in the mid-1990s. She was awarded a PhD in 2000 on Bayesian methods in cosmology supervised by Mike Hobson.
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Career and research
Bridle's research investigates climate change, focusing on a quantitative approach to helping transform food systems. Previously her research investigated the nature of the dark energy which may be the cause of the accelerating universe. She uses weak gravitational lensing to investigate dark energy because it can reveal the distribution of dark matter.
Her research has been funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), the Royal Society and the European Research Council (ERC).
Following her PhD, Bridle was a postdoctoral researcher at the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique of the Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP) in Toulouse and Selwyn College, Cambridge. In 2004, Bridle was appointed a lecturer at University College London and was subsequently promoted to Reader in 2008 and professor at the University of Manchester in 2013.
In 2015, in part inspired by the illness of David J. C. MacKay, Bridle adopted a new research direction about agriculture, food and sustainability on the planet Earth, making use of data as in her astrophysical research. She leads the greenhouse gas and dietary choices open-source toolkit (GGDOT)
Bridle has supervised several PhD students.