Roger Highfield

Who is Roger Highfield?

Roger Highfield is an author, museum executive and a science journalist.

Highfield studied physical chemistry, becoming the first to bounce a neutron off a soap bubble, and received a DPhil from the University of Oxford.

Highfield was the Science editor of British newspaper The Daily Telegraph for more than 20 years. He was the editor of the British magazine New Scientist from 2008 to 2011.

As of 2011 Highfield became the "Director of External Affairs" of the Science Museum Group.

In 2012, he published the results of a mass intelligence test with Adrian Owen. The same year, the Royal Society invited him to give the Wilkins Bernal Medawar Lecture

He is a member of the Longitude Committee, has written or coauthored seven books, and edited two written by Craig Venter.