Our Authors

Helen Rogers is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge examining the atmospheric impact of aviation emissions. Helen is a founding member of the Institute for Aviation and the Environment at Cambridge and contributed to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Report "Aviation and the Global Atmosphere".

Bjoern Brembs was born and raised in Würzburg, Germany; he studied there and in Umeå, Sweden. After his dissertation, he moved to Houston, Texas to work on the marine snail Aplysia. He's now an independent research scientist at the Freie Universität,

Berlin.

Ana M. Rossi is a Junior Research Fellow at Queens' College in Cambridge. She studies inositol trisphosphate (IP3) receptors at the Department of Pharmacology, Cambridge University.

Philip Strange is Emeritus Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Reading. For many years he researched the effects of drugs on the brain. He now writes about science and how we find science in every day life (see philipstrange.wordpress.com/).

Reto U. Schneider is the deputy editor of NZZ Folio the monthly magazine of the daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung in Zürich Switzerland. He writes a regular column about unusual experiments which led to a best selling book that was named "Science Book of the Year" in Germany. In the UK it's called "The Mad Science Book" (Quercus 2008).

Harriet Dickinson is currently studying for a biosciences PhD at the University of Cambridge having done her undergraduate degree at Oxford. She specialises in infectious diseases (especially the scary ones), and spends most of her time in the lab pipetting. When she does manage finally to escape the lab, she vents her scientific frustrations as the captain of the "cutthroats" – a Cambridge University ladies’ fencing team - and also by doing taekwondo.

John Gamel is Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Louisville in Kentucky, USA. He has published ninety scientific articles on topics that range from fingerprints to breast cancer. He has also published fifteen personal essays in a variety of literary journals, including Epoch, Boulevard, The Antioch Review, and The Gettysburg Review.

Douglas E. Richards (www.douglaserichards.com , e-mail: doug@san.rr.com ) writes for NG KIDS magazine and is the author of the children’s science fiction thrillers, The Prometheus Project — Trapped and The Prometheus Project — Captured, books called “Perfect for middle grades,” by Teaching PreK-8 Magazine and endorsed by the California Department of Education, the AAAS, and many others.

Harry Cliff took his undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge, specialising in physics. He is now studying for a PhD in the High Energy Physics group at the Cavendish Laboratory, carrying out research for the LHCb experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, CERN.

Véronique is a mathematics tutors at the Open University and often writes for the mathematics magazine iSquared. She obtained a PhD in mathematical sciences from Durham University in 2008, during which she studied various aspects of astroparticle physics.

Rheanna Sand is a PhD student in molecular neuropharmacology at the University of Alberta, Canada, studying voltage-gated potassium channel proteins. She is also a contributor and co-founder of the video blog "Science in Seconds", and plays guitar in what little spare time she has.

Nicola began studying chemistry because she liked 'the pretty colours' and is now, aptly, researching porphyrin dyes for her DPhil in Organic Chemistry at Oxford University. Apart from synthesising a rainbow in the lab, Nicola has enjoyed writing science articles for a variety of magazines as well as taking up the position of chief editor for 'Bang!', Oxford's science magazine. When not scribbling down ideas for her next article, Nicola enjoys archery, martinis and riding.