Organisers and confirmed special guest tutors

Buzz Baum MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
Enrico Coen The John Innes Centre, UK
Mark Miodownik University College London, UK
Jennifer Rohn University College London, UK

Roma Agrawal is is an award-winning engineer, author and broadcaster. Her first book Built was published in 2018 and her children’s book, How Was That Built?, is out this year.

Kat Arney is an award winning science writer, public speaker and broadcaster and author of the popular genetics books, Herding Hemingway’s Cats and How to Code a Human.

Philip Ball is the author of many popular books on science including How to Grow a Human and The Beauty of Chemistry. He is also a regular columnist for several magazines and an occasional radio presenter and broadcaster.

Matthew Cobb is a British zoologist and professor of zoology at the University of Manchester. He is known for his popular science books including The Egg & Sperm Race: The Seventeenth-Century Scientists Who Unravelled the Secrets of Sex, Life and Growth and The Idea of the Brain: A History.

Karen Joy Fowler is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels and three short story collections. Her 2004 novel, The Jane Austen Book Club, spent thirteen weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list and was a New York Times notable book.

Pippa Goldschmidt is a British fiction writer with a PhD in Astronomy. Her debut novel Falling Sky was published in 2013 and a collection of short stories The Need for Better Regulation of Outer Space in 2015.

Simon Mawer is a New York Times best-selling author of both novels and non fiction books including Mendel’s Dwarf and The Glass Room which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2009.

Angela Saini is an award-winning science journalist and author. Her work has appeared in Science, Wired, The Guardian, The New Humanist and New Scientist. She is also a presenter on BBC radio. She has written three books, the third Superior: The Return of Race Science, was published in 2019.

Gaia Vince is an award-winning science journalist, author, broadcaster and speaker. Her Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made won the 2015 Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books, making her the first woman to win the prize outright.

Gabrielle Walker is an expert strategist, speaker and moderator with a focus on sustainability, new energy and climate change. She the author of four books including Antarctica and Snowball Earth and has presented many programmes and series for BBC radio and television.

Tom Whipple is the science editor at The Times. His books include How to Win Games and Beat People and a scientific examination of the battle of the sexes, X and Why.

Jessica Woollard is an agent at David Higham Associates. The authors she represents have won or been shortlisted for many major prizes. Jessica represents a diverse range of international literary fiction and narrative non-fiction. South East Asia and Japan are areas of particular interest; she lived in Mumbai for five years. She’s long worked with memoir and books that explore multiple genres; science, natural history, gender, landscape, cultural and current affairs and the way these subjects impact on our daily lives, poetic, awake, activist, environmentally aware writing.