Our Authors

Julia is a researcher at Goldsmiths College and has an interest in the phenomenon of sleep paralysis.

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.

Emma Jarvis is an editorial assistant with a London-based life-sciences web-publishing company.

Christa Favot is currently completing her DDS at the University of Toronto. She has enjoyed several laboratory jobs on both American coasts where she had the chance to play with aspects of immunology and microbiology and measure the pH of diet Coke and ketchup chips (Canadian delicacy). When she is not obsessing over other people's spit, she herself drools over bicycles, and tries not to trip over her ballet shoes.

Dave Reay is a Natural Environment Research Council Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, and Editor of the leading climate change website GHGonline.org

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

Ruth Williams is a researcher in the Lymphocyte Development Group at the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre, Imperial College London.

Alexandra Lindsay is a post-docoral scientist in the Department of Bioengineering at Imperial College London.

Guy Brandon completed a PhD in Theology at Cambridge University in 2004 and is now involved in counselling and writing.

Nicholas Humphrey is a School Professor at the London School of Economics. He is a theoretical psychologist, well known for his work on the evolution of human intelligence and consciousness.

Anne Hinton is an independent research scientist.

Felicia Huppert is Professor of Psychology at Cambridge, and Fellow of Darwin College. The above article describes the scope of Felicia's new book The Science of Wellbeing, which is published by Oxford University Press.