Dr Josie Peters
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Dr Josie Peters is an Astrophysicist, Science Communicator, Comedian, Actor and Illustrator.
She has a DPhil in Astrophysics from University of Oxford, MSc in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the University of Manchester and a BSc in Mathematics from King’s College London.
In 2014 Josie began communicating science by co-presenting on The Jodcast. Since then, she has co-hosted on Recycled Electrons (with Sky at Night presenter Prof. Chris Lintott) and A Piece of String. She has also given numerous public talks and produced and presented videos on Astrophysics and Maths related topics and runs a popular TikTok Channel explaining big topics in Astrophysics.
Josie has contributed to The Edge of Science, a BBC Studios and YouTube Originals programme with 2.1M+ views on the science of levitation and even got to ride a hoverboard!
Most recently, she presented the 5 part short web series for BBC Earth/Facebook Watch called Weird Science which looked at big questions in science, and the people trying to answer them.
Josie also provided astrophysics advice for Andrew Hunter Murray's (QI elf, comedian and co-host of No Such Thing As A Fish) dystopian thriller The Last Day and at the University of Oxford worked as a college tutor teaching mathematics module to 2nd-year physics students and for the Astrophysics sub-department teaching 4th-year undergraduates astrophysics module.
Josie is the director of The Oxford Imps for the academic year 2021/22. She joined the Oxford Imps in 2015, since performing in hundreds of shows in and around Oxford, as well as at the Edinburgh Fringe. She also performs with Jericho Comedy in Harry Potter parody : The Show That Must Not Be Named and Murder on the National Express. In the past we travelled across the UK with An Improvised Funeral.
Josie guest spotted in Criminal, a murder mystery improv show featuring comedians such as Josie Lawrence, Miles Jupp and Rachel Parris, as well as performing with Canadian group Club Soda, as a guest on Jericho Comedy podcast The Dinner Party and Verity Babbs' Art Laughs.