Anna Scaife

Scaife wanted to be an archaeologist as a child.{{cite web|url=https://www.skatelescope.org/skapeople/anna-scaife/|title=Anna Scaife|website=SKA Telescope|access-date=2019-01-13}} She attended school at Loreto Grammar School in Altrincham.{{cite web|url=https://bigdatan14.imascientist.org.uk/profile/|title=Profile|website=Big Data Zone|access-date=2019-01-13}} 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|reasonator=1}}.{{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}} 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.{{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|url-status=dead}}

Her research investigates the origin and evolution of large-scale cosmic magnetic fields.{{cite web|url=https://www.discoverthebluedot.com/profile/anna-scaife|title=Anna Scaife – Bluedot Festival|website=discoverthebluedot.com|access-date=2019-01-13}} She was a research scientist at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, where she was involved in testing for the James Webb Space Telescope. Scaife joined the University of Southampton as an associate professor in Radio Astronomy.{{cite web|url=http://www.astro.soton.ac.uk/people/as.html|title=Astronomy Group|website=astro.soton.ac.uk|access-date=2019-01-13}} Here she worked on Bayesian data analysis, the Sunyaev–Zeldovich effect and radio astronomy instrumentation. She identified anomalous microwave emission coming from regions of star formation.{{cite journal|title=Anomalous Microwave Emission from Star Forming Regions|last=Scaife|first=Anna M. M.|date=2013|journal=Advances in Astronomy|volume=2013|pages=390287|doi=10.1155/2013/390287|bibcode=2013AdAst2013E..14S|doi-access=free}} She was part of the Arcminute Microkelvin Imager Large Array (AMI-LA), using which she observed young stellar objects in the Perseus molecular cloud.{{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}}

She moved to the University of Manchester where she was appointed Head of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics Interferometry Centre of Excellence.{{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}} Her research was funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant fellowship from 2013 to 2018.{{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|url-status=dead}} From 2016, Scaife led the imaging pipeline group for the Square Kilometre Array science data processor consortium.{{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}} She was the Principal Investigator for the LOFAR magnetism key science project. She was part of the commissioning team for the LOFAR telescope, which was 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.{{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}}{{cite web|url=https://www.aeneas2020.eu/contact/|title=Contact|website=AENEAS|access-date=2019-01-13}} She runs two Science and Technology Facilities Council Newton Fund programs that offer bursaries for scientists from Southern Africa and Latin America.{{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}}{{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}} She has established a UK - South Africa program that develops capacity in big data and data science in South Africa.{{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}} Scaife is interested in using deep learning to study astronomically big data.{{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}}

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.{{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}}{{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}}{{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}}{{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}} She found that the anomalous microwave emission (AME) from the Milky Way might be due to hydrogenated nanodiamonds.{{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}} Scaife had previously observed AME from circumstellar discs when working with Dave Green at the University of Cambridge.{{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}}

Scaife also holds the 2017 Blaauw Chair at the University of Groningen.{{cite web|url=https://www.discoverthebluedot.com/profile/anna-scaife-1|title=Anna Scaife – Bluedot Festival|website=discoverthebluedot.com|access-date=2019-01-13}}{{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}} She contributed to the textbook Optical and Digital Image Processing: Fundamentals and Applications.{{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=9783527635245|title=Optical and Digital Image Processing}}

Her awards and honours include:

• 2019 Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) Jackson-Gwilt Medal
• 2014 World Economic Forum Top 30 scientists under 40{{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}}{{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}}

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