Our Authors

Dana Mackenzie is a science journalist and author of "The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be".

Gene Mascoli is the founder of popular US site ScienceMaster.com

Claire McLoughlin is from the press and publications department of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Peter is Professor of pharmacology at Cambridge University and joined us to talk about how the body signals pain and how drugs that can combat pain, including cannabis, cocaine and aspirin, work. He also gives a brief overview of how new drugs are designed and developed, and how natural drugs, produced by plants, are discovered.

Stephanie is currently undertaking PhD research into the area of breast cancer-related lymphoedema at St. George’s, University of London.

Chris is a lecturer at Birminham University developing superconducting devices.

The Naked Scientists Poet in Residence

Mary O'Neill has previously worked as a molecular biologist in Leeds and Edinburgh. She is now training as a psychotherapist and is teaching at a further education college in Edinburgh.

George Pendle lives in New York and is a science writer for The Times and the Financial Times. He is also the author of a new book - Strange Angel: The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside Parsons - which is now available in hardback, published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Helen Pickersgill is a Molecular Biologist at The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, USA.