BIO
A member of our advisory board, Mark Miodownik is an engineer and materials scientist the Professor of Materials and Society at University College London. He is also the Director of the Institute of Making and one of the curators of the Materials Library, which brought Smelting, Melting & Casting to the Secret Garden Party in 2009.
As part of our collaboration with the Secret Cinema for their production of Alien, he brought a sample of Aerogel (also known as “frozen smoke”), the lightest solid in the world and a component of the space shuttle.
In 2010 Mark presented the 2010 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, broadcast on BBC Four. He was recently included in the The Times list of the top 100 most influential people in science.
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