Dr. Eris Bell is a Ghanaian-British astrophysicist and novelist whose research on gravitational microlensing and parallax mapping informed her speculative worlds. Born in Accra in 1984 and raised in Manchester, she earned a PhD in astrophysics from the University of Edinburgh in 2012 before holding research posts with the European Southern Observatory and the Square Kilometre Array collaboration. She later taught orbital dynamics and science communication at the University of Cape Town, where she co-led a public program on dark-sky preservation. Bell's fiction blends rigorous science with themes of memory, justice, and ecological stewardship. She splits her time between Edinburgh and Cape Town, consults on orbital debris policy, and keeps an amateur radio tuned to deep-space beacons.
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