Chris Jackson is professor of Geoscience at Imperial College London and this year is presenting one of the RI's Christmas lectures.

Jess Wade sprung to STEM Stardom in 2017 when she began a challenge to uncover the secret role models of science - the women and people of colour who, although they did amazing scientific work have been overlooked throughout history. She's also an incredibly physicist in her own right studying chiral Organic LEDs (You likely don't know them but they're all around you in your phones and swanky new TVs.

Anna Ploszajski ("Por-zhy-ski") is an award winning materials scientist who specialised in 4-dimensional materials and hydrogen storage. Now however, she's a full time science communicator with a background in science comedy! She runs a brilliant podcast called the Handmade podcast and she's currently writing a book called Handmade: A Scientist’s Search for Meaning through Making which is out next year!

Kassandra Ford is a PhD candidate studying the evolution of electric fish. She's also one of the co-organisers of #blackbirdersweek, an advocate for better representation in STEM and an amazing role-model for anyone wanting to go into academia or education.

Heidi Gardner is as a clinical researcher working to improve how the medical industry develops new treatments. She also runs the incredible Science On A Postcard - a business designed to improve the visibility of scientists around the world no matter what they look like or what weird field they study!

Melissa Cronin is a conservation ecologist working to protect manta and devil rays living in the high seas. However, prior to undertaking her PhD she worked as a conservation journalist and was published by the Huffington Post, the New York Times and Vice. In this podcast we explored the influence of growing up on a lobster fishery, how her dad's late life career change inspired her to do the same and how we can prevent the deaths of the elusive manta ray as a result of by-catch by tuna fishermen.

Hello and welcome to the third episode of my podcast a sit down with a scientist where I'm joined by Julie Johnson a science illustrator who founded the amazing Life Science Studios, to discuss how she became a science illustrator, her time as a scientist at Monterey Bay and why she got into science in the first place! Check out Julie's website and buy her amazing art! https://www.lifesciencestudios.com/ Follow Julie on Twitter https://twitter.com/jehimes Follow me on Twitter https://twitter.com/SJ_McKay and have an incredible day!

This episode I sat down with Dr Cathy Mulligan, a financial expert at the world economic forum and a lecturer at UCL and Imperial College London to talk about her experiences as a woman in tech, whether cryptocurrency is still really that much of a big deal and how financial technologies can address the imbalance of power in our society. Some things you should definitely do... Follow Cathy on Twitter: twitter.com/API_Economics Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/SJ_McKay And have a lovely day!

Hi everyone and welcome to the first episode of Sit Down with a Scientist! I'm Sam and in this episode I had the chance to talk to Dr Giorgio Gilestro, a scientist from Imperial College London who studies sleep and whether or not it's really that important. Some things you should definitely do... Follow Giorgio on Twitter: twitter.com/giorgiogilestro Follow me on Twitter: twitter.com/SJ_McKay And have a lovely day!