Dr Roger Highfield OBE HonFREng FMedSci   

Science Director, Science Museum Group    

Dr Roger Highfield is the Science Director of the Science Museum Group, Visiting Professor of Public Engagement at the University of Oxford and UCL, and member of the UK Research and Innovation’s Medical Research Council and Building a Green Future Advisory Board. PDr Roger Highfield is the Science Director of the Science Museum Group, Previously, Roger was Director of External Affairs at the Group, editor of New Scientist magazine and the science editor of the Daily Telegraph . He is the Honorary President of the Association of British Science Writers (ABSW). 

Roger has been a member of many committees, including several for the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Longitude Prize Committee and the Court of Imperial College London. A fellow of the Royal Society of Biology and the Academy of Medical Sciences, and Honorary Fellow of the British Science Association, Roger won the Royal Society’s Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar prize in 2012 along with four ABSW awards and a British Press Award. He was also awarded an OBE. Roger has written/co-authored 10 books, including two bestsellers. His last, Virtual You (with Peter Coveney FREng), was a book of the year, according to the Financial Times. The book discussed an engineering approach (digital twins) to medicine, which led to a virtual heart exhibit in the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering-supported Engineers gallery at the Science Museum.