Kim Page

Kim Page is a British astrophysicist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester. She has helped to run the UK Swift Science Data Centre since before the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission was launched in 2004.
Education
Page attended the former King Edward VII and Queen Mary School, Lytham (now part of AKS Lytham) from 1989-1996. She studied at the University of Leicester initially for a Master of Physics degree in Physics with Astrophysics, graduating in 2000. This was followed by a PhD for which her thesis, completed in 2003, was entitled XMM-Newton Observations of Type-I Active Galactic Nuclei.
Research and career
Page works as a postdoctoral research associate in the X-ray and Observational Astronomy (XROA) group in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester. Alongside helping to run the UK Swift Science Data Centre (UKSSDC) since before the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (previously known as the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission) was launched in 2004, she has authored and coauthored academic papers, Gamma-ray Burst Coordinates Network, (GCN) Circulars and . Her current areas of research are Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and novae.
Awards and honours
As one of the six best undergraduate entrants to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leicester in 1996-1997, Page was awarded a Velan Scholarship.() In 1998 she was presented with the Philips (now known as the Photonics) Prize for distinguished performance in the second year examinations.
Public engagement
Page has spoken at the National Space Academy. She has appeared on The Sky at Night about her work on cosmic blasts. and gamma ray bursts. She has appeared in a BBC Open TV series The Cosmos: A Beginner's Guide and the Planetarium show by NSC Creative: We are Astronomers.

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