Teresa Anderson

Jodrell Bank In 2006, Anderson joined Jodrell Bank Observatory. In 2010 she began to set up the Discovery Centre, which opened in 2011. Today Anderson is Director of the Discovery Centre at Jodrell Bank Observatory which welcomes over 185,000 visitors per year. The Jodrell Bank schools programme started in 2012 and sees 26,000 school children visit per year.

The centre run Live from Jodrell Bank science-music events, including bands such as The Flaming Lips, New Order and Elbow alongside scientific research such as graphene and the Large Hadron Collider. The Centre has won many awards, including Marketing Cheshire 's Team of the Year and the UK Festival Awards Extreme Creativity award. In 2015 Anderson secured £12 million of Heritage Lottery Fund support to develop the Grade I listed site. In 2016, Anderson launched Bluedot, a festival of discovery based at Jodrell Bank Observatory. She was awarded an honorary Professorship at the University of Manchester. In 2017, Anderson and the Jodrell Bank Observatory Discovery Centre were awarded £4 million in the Autumn Statement. After many years of work by Anderson and Professor Tim O'Brien, the site, home to the Lovell Telescope, was selected as the UK's 2019 nomination for UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Awards and honours Anderson was recognised for her services to Astrophysics in 2013, when the Queen awarded her an MBE. She won the 2014 Institute of Physics Kelvin Prize for Public Engagement with physics, alongside Tim O'Brien. Anderson was Chair of the Association of Science and Discovery Centres in 2010, a role she held until 2015. She is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In 2015 Anderson became Chair of the Daphne Jackson Trust, a charity which supports scientists in their return-to-work following career breaks.