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Dr Roger Highfield
Director of External Affairs, Science Museum
As a boy, Dr Roger Highfield OBE FRSB FMedSci was inspired by the science of the Space Race in the 1960s, and went on to secure a doctorate in physical chemistry from Oxford University.
He was the Science Editor of The Daily Telegraph for two decades and the Editor of New Scientist between 2008 and 2011.
Today, he is the Science Director at the Science Museum Group and a Council Member for the UKRI MRC. Roger has written seven books and had thousands of articles published in newspapers and magazines.