Roger Highfield

Roger Highfield is the Science Director at the Science Museum Group. He studied Chemistry at the University of Oxford and was the first person to bounce a neutron off a soap bubble. Roger was the Science Editor of The Daily Telegraph for two decades, and the Editor of New Scientist between 2008 and 2011. He is a member of the Medical Research Council, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and a visiting Professor at UCL and Oxford. Rodger has written several books, most recently The Dance of Life: The New Science of How a Single Cell Becomes a Human Being, and published thousands of articles in newspapers and magazines. For Mosaic, he has written on reading vegetative minds, as well as conducting an in-depth interview with Craig Venter.