Our Authors

Hakim Yadi is a PhD student at the Babraham Research Institute in Cambridge.

Robinson Fulweiler has a Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island and completed a postdoc at Louisiana State University, where she studied the wetland ecology of the Gulf Coast. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the departments of Earth Sciences and Biology at Boston University.

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Tracey Rich is a professional wildlife photographer.

Charlotte Rusby studied protein folding for her PhD at the MRC Centre for Protein Engineering in Cambridge. From 2008, she takes up a postdoc post studying protein-protein interactions at the Institute of Cancer Research in London, moving from looking at one protein to looking at two!

Emma Gatti is a geologist studying for an MPhil in GIS and remote sensing at the University of Cambridge, where she is looking at volcanic gas emissions. She is also trying to carve out a career as a scientific journalist, although at present she is heavily committed to proving that not all young Italian girls are good at cooking…

Catherine Zentile is a member of the Quantum Matter research group in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University.

Alexandra Cheung has a degree in environmental science from the University of Nottingham and a masters in science communication from Imperial College. She is currently a freelance science journalist based in London.

Andrew Caines is a PhD student in Cambridge at the Research Centre for English and Applied Linguistics, looking at how spoken and written English differ.

Alex Thompson is an atmospheric scientist living in Cambridge.

Stuart Clark is a UK-based science journalist with a PhD in astrophysics. He is a Visiting Fellow of the University of Hertfordshire and a former editor of the United Kingdom's best-selling astronomy magazine, Astronomy Now. Currently he writes for the European Space Agency, New Scientist and BBC Focus and is also the author of several books, including Journey to the Stars and Universe in Focus: The Story of the Hubble Telescope. His latest title, The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began (upon which this article is based) is published by Princeton University Press. It is also the winner of the 2007 PSP (Professional and Scholarly Publishing) award for excellence in the category of cosmology and astronomy.

Beth Ashbridge studied Natural Sciences at Durham University, focusing on chemistry, physics and maths before starting her Ph.D. in chemical biology in the Chemistry Department at Cambridge University.

Christopher Stanton is originally from California and has lived in Hawaii, Virginia and North Carolina. He is a palaeontologist and palaeoclimatologist at East Carolina University.