Hiranya Peiris
speaker
454 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 25 May
Hiranya Peiris’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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K-Rauta.
Thank you so much, Jim.
It's really nice to be here.
It comes from being a young girl myself and falling in love with science through, for example, books, where the people who are writing the books were very inspirational, but they did not look like me.
And I want young girls to see role models that look like themselves and
doing the things that they can aspire to.
And that's what drives my passion for having those young girls in the front row, not in the back row, and sometimes not even in the room.
When I'm doing science, I feel that we are on a search for truth as humanity.
And I really connect to that idea.
For me, it is a safe place.
It is a place where things make sense.
When you state a fact, it is an objective truth about reality rather than something someone made up.
This marks a time when astrophysics, as distinct from astronomy, became a subject of study.
So astronomy can be thought of as mapping the universe, but astrophysics is turning the data or the observations we have made into understanding and connecting it to fundamental physics.
And that started around the time of 1909.
Right.
That's right.
So my mother was a bridge engineer.
She designed bridges.
She was one of Sri Lanka's first female civil engineers.
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