Diana Hannikainen

Diana Hannikainen graduated from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland with a BSc in Physics and Astronomy, and then decided to she needed to explore my Finnish roots ... she therefore attended the University of Helsinki where she obtained an MSc and then a PhD in high-energy astrophysics (the latter in conjunction with the University of Sydney in Australia). Diana's research focused on modeling the accretion-ejection connection in X-ray binaries, and so she spent most of her time observing these objects in the X-rays and radio. She has always been keen on science writing and all that it entailed, and she couldn't believe her good fortune when just a little more than a year ago Sky & Telescope hired her. It's been sheer joy reconnecting with the night sky from a visual perspective.