Mark Brake

Mark Brake is a freelance academic, working out of the UK, who writes popular science books, and has done science communication work in film, television, print, and radio on five continents. He has communicated science for NASA, Seattle's Science Fiction Museum, the BBC, the Royal Institution, the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Nature, the British Council, and the National Science Museum of Thailand. Mark is perhaps best known for his work in popularising the relationship between space, science and culture.

Mark's books including those written about the relationship between science and fiction ("Different Engines" and "FutureWorld"), two communicating science for a younger public ("Space Hoppers" and "Really, Really Big Questions about Space and Time"), and two rather more academic works ("Revolution in Science: How Galileo and Darwin Changed our World" and "Introducing Science Communication: A Practical Guide").

Mark is currently working with Cambridge University Press on "Alien Life Imagined: Communicating the Science and Culture of Astrobiology", and with Kingfisher/MacMillan on "The Alien Hunters Handbook". Both books are to be published in 2012.

More information on Mark's work can be found at his website www.markbrake.com/ or on his iScience website at www.iscience.org.uk/iScience/Home.html