Curious Cases Creators & Guests

Dara Ó Briain is a comedian and television presenter.

Adam Rutherford is a geneticist, author, and broadcaster. He was an audio-visual content editor for the journal Nature for a decade, is a frequent contributor to the newspaper The Guardian, hosts the BBC Radio 4 program Inside Science, has produced several science documentaries, and has published books related to genetics and the origin of life.

Hannah Fry is a British mathematician, lecturer on the Mathematics of Cities, television presenter and public speaker. Her work includes studying the patterns of human behavior, such as relationships and dating and how mathematics can apply to them.

Ilan Goodman is a podcaster, producer, and communicator of science.

Melanie Brown is a freelance multimedia journalist and producer.

British audio producer.

Rami Tzabar is a development editor for BBC Audio Science, and series editor of 13 Minutes to the Moon Podcast.

Fiona Roberts is a producer at the BBC.

Jen Whyntie is a BBC audio producer.

Lynne Boddy is a Professor of Microbial Ecology at Cardiff University. She works on the ecology of wood decomposition, including synecology and autecology. She won the 2018 Learned Society of Wales Frances Hoggan Medal.

Dr. Ben Novak is a de-extinction biologist with Revive & Restore, leading The Great Passenger Pigeon Project.

Chris French is a psychologist specialising in the psychology of paranormal beliefs and experiences, cognition and emotion. Currently, he is the head of the University of London's anomalistic Psychology Research Unit.French appears regularly in the media as an expert on testing paranormal claims.French has published over 150 articles and chapters covering a wide range of topics within psychology. He writes for the Guardian and The Skeptic magazine, and was Editor-in-Chief of The Skeptic magazine from 2001-2010.French's first book, "Anomalistic Psychology, co-authored with three other authors, was published in 2012. His second book, "Anomalistic Psychology: Exploring Paranormal Belief and Experience, co-authored with Anna Stone, was published in 2014.

Joanna Dunkley is a British astrophysicist and Professor of Physics at Princeton University. She works on the origin of the Universe and the Cosmic microwave background (CMB) using the Atacama Cosmology Telescope, the Simons Observatory and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). (Source: Wikipedia)

Erica McAlister is a British scientist and museum curator. She is an expert in insects and is Senior Curator of Diptera, in the Department of Entomology, at the Natural History Museum in London.

Daniel Susskind is a Fellow in Economics at Balliol College, Oxford and co-author of The Future of Professions.

Polly McGuigan is a biomechanist interested in muscles and tendons in human and animal locomtion, injury prevention and performance enhancement.

Anil Seth is a professor of cognitive and computational neuroscience at the University of Sussex, where he studies consciousness and its role in health and disease. He co-directs the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science and is the Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Neuroscience of Consciousness.

Terry Virts is a former astronaut of NASA and Colonel in the United States Air Force.

Dr. Tim Spector is an epidemiologist and science writer.