Dame Margaret Ebunoluwa Aderin-Pocock DBE (née Aderin; born 9 March 1968) is a British space scientist and science educator.

[4] She is the first black woman to win a gold medal in the Physics News Award and she served as the president of the British Science Association from 2021 to 2022.

[12] She studied at Imperial College London, graduated with a BSc in physics in 1990, and completed her PhD in mechanical engineering under the supervision of Hugh Spikes in 1994.

[1][19] In 1999, Aderin-Pocock returned to Imperial College on a fellowship from the Science and Technology Facilities Council to work with the group developing[20] a high-resolution spectrograph[21] for the Gemini telescope in Chile.

The high spectral resolution of the instrument allowed studies of stellar populations, interstellar medium, and some physical phenomena in stars with small masses.

[22][23][24] She worked on and managed the observation instruments for the Aeolus satellite, which measured wind speeds to help the investigation of climate change.

The finals of this competition are held at The Big Bang Fair in March each year, and reward young people who have achieved excellence in a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics project.

In 2014, the pseudonymously written Ephraim Hardcastle diary column in the Daily Mail claimed that Aderin-Pocock (along with Hiranya Peiris) had been selected to discuss results from the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization 2 (BICEP-2) experiment on Newsnight because of her gender and ethnicity.

[44] After the report was published, Aderin-Pocock stated that it "was not denying institutional racism existed but said the commission had not discovered evidence of it in the areas it had looked".

[62] Aderin-Pocock discussed her life on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs in March 2010,[63] and has been the subject of numerous biographical articles on women in science.