Dr Francisco Diego
Dr Francisco Diego is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Physics and Astronomy University College London, vice president of the UK Association for Astronomy Education and a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society. He is a keen populariser of astronomy and has extensive experience as a planetarium producer/presenter, lecturer, author and broadcaster. He has appeared on TV series like Stephen Hawking’s Universe, BBC’s The Planets and more recently, the world-wide version of BBC’s Wonders of the Universe. Veteran of 19 solar eclipse expeditions. Founder and director of Your Universe, the UCL festival of Astronomy. Producing and delivering The Mind of the Universe, a collection of public and school lectures and teacher workshops on astrophysics, cosmology and life in the Universe.
Francisco will be talking on the subject of ‘Aliens! … Where are you?’. From ancient beliefs that the Earth was a unique world made by God for humankind to be at the centre of the Universe, to the amazing insights and discoveries that bravely challenged those misconceptions, in this lecture we explore the fascinating theme of life in a Universe in constant change and development, from its very simple and remote origin. What is life and how could it develop on paradise Earth to the high level of diversity and complexity that we see today? Did it all happen just by chance? Recent astronomical observations indicate that there may be millions of solar systems in our galaxy, where life could develop in similar ways. Should we find alien intelligence virtually everywhere?
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