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Alok Jha

Science Correspondent
The Guardian

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Alok Jha is a science correspondent at the Guardian. He maintains the Guardian's science website and presents the Science weekly podcast. A physics graduate from Imperial College London he has written several popular science books. (Photograph: Linda Nylind.)

Dr Gail Cardew

Director of Science and Education, Royal Institution
The Royal Institution of Great Britain

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As Director of Science and Education, Gail is responsible for science communication, science education and science policy activities at the Ri. She has a degree in biology and a PhD on the regulation of the cell cycle.

Dr Kevin Fong

Anaethetist and lecturer in physiology
UCL Centre for Anaesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine

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Kevin Fong is a consultant anaethetist and lecturer in physiology at University College London Hospital. He has degrees in medicine, engineering and astrophysics. Kevin chairs the UK Space Biomedical Advisory Committee and is currently a Wellcome Trust Engagement Fellow. He has previously worked at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, and has also presented medical documentaries for BBC2 and Channel 4.

Professor Frank James

Professor of History of Science and Head of Collections
The Royal Institution of Great Britain

Frank is a Professor of the History of Science and Head of Collections at the Ri, where he is editing the Correspondence of Michael Faraday. He has a PhD in the development of spectroscopy in the nineteenth century.

Andrew Marmery

The Royal Institution

Andrew is the Clothworkers' Science Demonstration Technician at the Ri. He's a veteran of eight series of Christmas Lectures, having arrived as an extra pair of hands for Monica Grady's lectures in 2003, and then stuck around ever since. He also prepares demonstrations that illuminate (often literally) much of the rest of the Ri's events and activities.

Dr Adam Rutherford

Geneticist, author and broadcaster
Nature

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Adam is a science broadcaster and Editor at the journal Nature. He has a degree in evolutionary biology and a PhD in the genetics of the eye. Adam has presented on BBC TV and radio, and he is currently writing a book on the origin of life.

Alom Shaha

Physics teacher, film-maker and science writer

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Science communicator Alom specialises in making difficult science easy to understand for the public. He has written and produced various science TV programmes on subjects ranging from particle physics to maths.

Anna Starkey

Writer and creative producer
Out of Your Mind Productions

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Anna is a writer and producer with Out of Your Mind Productions, and Creator of Impossible Projects at Lotto Lab, the neuroscience research space at London's Science Museum. She has previously worked on programmes for children's television and the BBC Proms.