Helen Czerski is a physicist, first and foremost, but she's acquired a few other labels along the way- oceanographer, broadcaster, author and bubble enthusiast. Her academic home is the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University College London, where she studies the physics of ocean bubbles, particularly the ones underneath breaking waves.
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