{{short description|Radio astronomer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Anna Scaife | image = Anna Scaife for World Economic Forum.jpg | caption = Anna Scaife discusses the Square Kilometre Array for the World Economic Forum in 2017 | birth_name = Anna Margaret Mahala Scaife | workplaces = University of Manchester <br /> University of Cambridge <br /> Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies <br /> University of Southampton | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1981|05|20|df=y}} | education = Loreto Grammar School | alma_mater = University of Bristol (MPhys)<br />University of Cambridge (PhD) | thesis_year = 2007 | thesis_url=https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/t9gok8/44CAM_ALMA21433380380003606 | thesis_title = Observing the cosmic microwave background with the Very Small Array | fields = Radio astronomy | doctoral_advisor = Keith Grainge | known_for = Big data astrophysics | awards = Jackson-Gwilt Medal (2019) | website ={{Official URL}} }}
'''Anna Margaret Mahala Scaife''' (born 20 May 1981) is a Professor of Radio Astronomy at the University of Manchester and Head of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics Interferometry Centre of Excellence.<ref name=gs>{{Google scholar id}}</ref><ref name=scopus>{{Scopus id}}</ref><ref name=orcid>Anna Scaife's {{ORCID}}</ref> She is the co-director of Policy@Manchester.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.policy.manchester.ac.uk/about/people/|title=People - Policy@Manchester|website=policy.manchester.ac.uk|access-date=2019-01-14|archive-date=15 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190115132539/https://www.policy.manchester.ac.uk/about/people/}}</ref> She was awarded the Jackson-Gwilt Medal by the Royal Astronomical Society in 2019 in recognition of her contributions to astrophysical instrumentation.
== Education and early life == Scaife wanted to be an archaeologist as a child.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.skatelescope.org/skapeople/anna-scaife/|title=Anna Scaife|website=SKA Telescope|access-date=2019-01-13}}</ref> She attended school at Loreto Grammar School in Altrincham.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://bigdatan14.imascientist.org.uk/profile/|title=Profile|website=Big Data Zone|access-date=2019-01-13}}</ref> She earned her master's degree in physics at the University of Bristol in 2003. For her doctoral studies, Scaife joined the University of Cambridge where she was supervised by {{ill|Keith Grainge|qid=Q61770301}}.<ref name=phd>{{cite thesis|url=https://idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk/permalink/f/t9gok8/44CAM_ALMA21433380380003606|year=2007|title=Observing the cosmic microwave background with the Very Small Array|publisher=University of Cambridge|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.613275}}|oclc=890155792|first=Anna|last=Scaife|degree=PhD}}</ref> After graduating in 2007, Scaife stayed at Cambridge as a postdoctoral research associate at the Cavendish Laboratory and was a Fellow of Selwyn College, Cambridge.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://chpcconf.co.za/index.php/9-plenary-speakers/62-2016-keynote-speakers|title=2016 Keynote Speakers|website=chpcconf.co.za|access-date=2019-01-13|archive-date=14 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114044452/https://chpcconf.co.za/index.php/9-plenary-speakers/62-2016-keynote-speakers}}</ref>
== Research and career == Her research investigates the origin and evolution of large-scale cosmic magnetic fields.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.discoverthebluedot.com/profile/anna-scaife|title=Anna Scaife – Bluedot Festival|website=discoverthebluedot.com|access-date=2019-01-13}}</ref> She was a research scientist at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, where she was involved in testing for the James Webb Space Telescope.<ref name=":0" /> Scaife joined the University of Southampton as an associate professor in Radio Astronomy.<ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=https://www.astro.soton.ac.uk/people/as.html|title=Astronomy Group|website=astro.soton.ac.uk|access-date=2019-01-13}}</ref> Here she worked on Bayesian data analysis, the Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect and radio astronomy instrumentation.<ref name=":1" /> She identified anomalous microwave emission coming from regions of star formation.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Anomalous Microwave Emission from Star Forming Regions|last=Scaife|first=Anna M. M.|date=2013|journal=Advances in Astronomy|volume=2013|article-number=390287|doi=10.1155/2013/390287|bibcode=2013AdAst2013E..14S|doi-access=free}}</ref> She was part of the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager Large Array (AMI-LA), using which she observed young stellar objects in the Perseus molecular cloud.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Waldram|first1=Elizabeth|last2=Titterington|first2=David|last3=Shimwell|first3=Timothy|last4=Scott|first4=Paul F.|last5=Schammel|first5=Michel P.|last6=Saunders|first6=Richard D. E.|last7=Rodríguez-Gonzálvez|first7=Carmen|last8=Pooley|first8=Guy G.|last9=Perrott|first9=Yvette C.|date=2011|title=AMI-LA radio continuum observations of Spitzer c2d small clouds and cores: Perseus region|journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society|volume=415|issue=1|pages=893–910|doi=10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18755.x|doi-access=free |issn=0035-8711|arxiv=1101.5514|bibcode=2011MNRAS.415..893A|s2cid=119220088}}</ref>
She moved to the University of Manchester where she was appointed Head of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics Interferometry Centre of Excellence.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk/research/research-centres/ska-project/people/?section=SKA&sortfield=posttitle&sortorder=ascending&sorttype=text|title=People {{!}} The University of Manchester {{!}} Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics|website=jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk|access-date=2019-01-13}}</ref> Her research was funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant fellowship from 2013 to 2018.<ref name=":2">{{cite web|url=http://www.sggroningen.nl/nl/evenement/dark-forces-invisible-universe|title=Dark Forces in the Invisible Universe {{!}} Studium Generale Groningen|website=sggroningen.nl|access-date=2019-01-13|archive-date=20 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180120004557/http://www.sggroningen.nl/nl/evenement/dark-forces-invisible-universe}}</ref> From 2016, Scaife led the imaging pipeline group for the Square Kilometre Array science data processor consortium.<ref name=":3">{{cite web|url=https://ras.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2019-01/awards/Jackson-Gwilt%20Medal%20-%20Anna%20Scaife.pdf|title=RAS Medals 2018|website=ras.ac.uk|access-date=2019-01-13}}</ref> She was the Principal Investigator for the LOFAR magnetism key science project. She was part of the commissioning team for the LOFAR telescope, which is a pathfinder instrument for the Square Kilometre Array. At Jodrell Bank, Scaife leads the design of the computing for the European SKA Regional Centre, through the big data project AENEAS.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://amiga.iaa.es/p/330-SKA-Link.htm|title=AMIGA: SKA-Link: combining knowledge to pioneer Big-Data solutions for SKA Data Centres|website=amiga.iaa.es|access-date=2019-01-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aeneas2020.eu/contact/|title=Contact|website=AENEAS|access-date=2019-01-13}}</ref> She runs two Science and Technology Facilities Council Newton Fund programs that offer bursaries for scientists from Southern Africa and Latin America.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://programme.esof.eu/index.php?onglet=1&idUser=2091519|title=Programme {{!}} EuroScience Open Forum - Programme dynamique v2.0|website=programme.esof.eu|access-date=2019-01-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST/P006957/1|title=Newton RCUK-SEA -- Capacity Building in STEM to ensure a sustainable community development and a successful astronomical observatory in Timor|website=gtr.ukri.org|access-date=2019-01-13}}</ref> She has established a UK - South Africa program that develops capacity in big data and data science in South Africa.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ST/R001898/1|title=A UK-Africa Data Science Network: Capturing the SKA-Driven Data Transformation|website=gtr.ukri.org|access-date=2019-01-13}}</ref> Scaife is interested in using deep learning to study astronomically big data.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2112505|website=gtr.ukri.org|access-date=2019-01-13|title=Deep Learning for Astronomically Big Data}}</ref>
Scaife was part of a team of astrophysicists, including Jane Greaves, who identified nanodiamonds in three infant star systems, V892 Tau, HD 97048 and MWC 297 in the Milky Way.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/media/various-international-media-astronomers-discover-diamond-dust-shimmering-around-distant-stars(cf1bec0d-c1da-43ee-a7df-0d8c5cc2fbb9).html|title=VARIOUS INTERNATIONAL MEDIA: Astronomers discover diamond dust shimmering around distant stars {{!}} Research Explorer {{!}} The University of Manchester|website=research.manchester.ac.uk|access-date=2019-01-13}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{cite web|url=https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/astronomers-discover-diamond-dust-shimmering-around-distant-stars/|title=Astronomers discover diamond dust shimmering around distant stars|website=Astronomers discover diamond dust shimmering around distant stars|access-date=2019-01-13}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{cite web|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/space-nanodiamonds-found-source-microwave-radiation-180969305/|title=Space Nanodiamonds Found to Be Source of Some Cosmic Microwave Radiation|last=Solly|first=Meilan|website=Smithsonian|access-date=2019-01-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/nanodiamonds-dust-disks-young-stars-06087.html|title=Astronomers Find Rapidly Spinning Nanodiamonds in Dust Disks around Young Stars {{!}} Astronomy {{!}} Sci-News.com|website=Breaking Science News {{!}} Sci-News.com|access-date=2019-01-13}}</ref> She found that the anomalous microwave emission (AME) from the Milky Way might be due to hydrogenated nanodiamonds.<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Smith|first1=A. M. S.|last2=Mason|first2=B. S.|last3=Green|first3=D. A.|last4=Frayer|first4=D. T.|last5=Scaife|first5=A. M. M.|last6=Greaves|first6=J. S.|date=2018|title=Anomalous microwave emission from spinning nanodiamonds around stars|url=http://orca.cf.ac.uk/112208/1/AME-diamonds-NatAstron-maintext-formatted.pdf|journal=Nature Astronomy|volume=2|issue=8|pages=662–667|doi=10.1038/s41550-018-0495-z|issn=2397-3366|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428073028/http://orca.cf.ac.uk/112208/1/AME-diamonds-NatAstron-maintext-formatted.pdf|archive-date=28 April 2019|bibcode=2018NatAs...2..662G|arxiv=1806.04551|s2cid=76648711|access-date=19 July 2019|url-status=bot: unknown}}</ref> Scaife had previously observed AME from circumstellar discs when working with Dave Green at the University of Cambridge.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://astronomycommunity.nature.com/users/113306-jane-greaves/posts/34056-ame-in-the-sky-with-diamonds|title=AME In The Sky With Diamonds|last=Community|first=Nature Research Astronomy|date=2018-06-11|website=Nature Research Astronomy Community|access-date=2019-01-13}}</ref><ref name=":5" />
Scaife also holds the 2017 Blaauw Chair at the University of Groningen.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.discoverthebluedot.com/profile/anna-scaife-1|title=Anna Scaife – Bluedot Festival|website=discoverthebluedot.com|access-date=2019-01-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rug.nl/about-us/news-and-events/events/calendar/2017/studium/studium-generale-_-blaauw-lecture_-dark-forces-in-the-invisible-universe---anna-scaife?lang=en|title=Studium Generale {{!}} Blaauw Lecture: Dark Forces in the Invisible Universe - Anna Scaife {{!}} Events and open days {{!}} News and Events {{!}} About us {{!}} University of Groningen|website=rug.nl|access-date=2019-01-13|date=2017-09-13}}</ref> She contributed to the textbook ''Optical and Digital Image Processing: Fundamentals and Applications''.<ref>{{Citation|last=Scaife|first=Anna|chapter=Aperture Synthesis and Astronomical Image Formation|date=2011|pages=323–344|publisher=John Wiley & Sons, Ltd|doi=10.1002/9783527635245.ch15|isbn=978-3-527-63524-5|title=Optical and Digital Image Processing}}</ref>
=== Awards and honours === Her awards and honours include: *2019 Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) Jackson-Gwilt Medal<ref name=":3" /> *2014 World Economic Forum Top 30 scientists under 40<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.southampton.ac.uk/stag/news/2014/09/12_world_economic_forum_honours_southampton_scientist.page|title=World Economic Forum honours Southampton scientist {{!}} STAG Research Centre {{!}} University of Southampton|website=southampton.ac.uk|access-date=2019-01-13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://erc.europa.eu/event/annual-meeting-new-champions-2014-%E2%80%9Csummer-davos%E2%80%9D|title=Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2014 - "Summer Davos"|date=2014-07-16|website=ERC: European Research Council|access-date=2019-01-13}}</ref>
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