About

My new book Fire & Ice: The Volcanoes of the Solar System is out and available from wherever you normally get your books. Here’s the links for Amazon US, Amazon UK and my publisher Bloomsbury.

My first book Catching Stardust: Comets, Asteroids and the Birth of the Solar System came out in 2018, also published by Bloomsbury! It’s available in Hardcover, Paperback, E-book and Audiobook (which I narrate). Check out the following links for a copy: Bloomsbury, Amazon.

You can watch some talks and events I’ve done over on my YouTube channel and read more about the content of Catching Stardust and Fire & Ice here.

Photo credit: Elizabeth Mason

Welcome to my website and blog. I’m a science communicator and writer based in the UK. I currently work as Science Media Producer for Chemistry World at Royal Society of Chemistry. My academic background is in geology, geochemistry and cosmochemistry, which means I’ve studied ancient volcanoes in the Arctic, active volcanoes in Iceland and the Caribbean, and analysed specks of space dust from comets and asteroids to find out about the early days of the Solar System. I’ve also worked with NASA on samples collected by the Stardust mission to Comet Wild2, and with JAXA on asteroid samples returned by the Hayabusa mission to Itokawa. 

I also write freelance articles for popular science magazines, having worked with The Guardian, BBC Focus, All About Space and New Scientist and I’m a science host for Neil deGrasse Tyson’s popular StarTalk Radio podcast.

In 2019 I was invited to write the new space show called Worlds Beyond Earth at the Hayden Planetarium at The American Museum of Natural History. What began was a year-long adventure working with a phenomenal team of scientists and artists learning how a planetarium show is made. It premiered in January 2020 and here’s a little taster.

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