Following a physics degree, Jonathan fell into television on the grounds of being able to fix bicycles. He worked as a researcher and prop-maker on the early Adam Hart-Davis series "Local Heroes", and continued as a writer and producer for a dozen or more years, working on projects from children's science shows How2 and The Big Bang to Science Shack, the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, and Engineering Connections. His worst series picked up a BAFTA nomination, and his third-worst an RTS award.

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Stand-up mathematician and FameLab Alumni, Matt Parker has won this year’s Joshua Phillips Award for Innovation in Science Engagement (Josh Award). Well known for his comedic maths routines and maths shows, Matt’s media work and innovative practices in promoting maths wowed the judging panel.

The Josh Award recognises up-and-coming talent in the science communication field, and innovative approaches to engage the public with science. The Award includes a cash prize of £1000, a trophy and the role of Science Communicator in residence for the Manchester Science Festival 2012.

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By day I'm an astrophysist studying the furthest seen objects in the universe. By night I can either be found doing aikiolo down the local dojo, or as a white hot pillar of entertainment in ameture dramatics company.

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Spiros Kitsinelis, the winner of the first FameLab Greece competition in 2007, has published a book called “Effective Science Communication - Going beyond Words to Reach Audiences” which will be released on 31 October 2011.

The British Science Festival is one of Europe's largest science festivals. The theme for the 2011 Festival is ' Exploring new worlds'. The festival will take place in Bradford from Saturday 10th September - Thursday 15th September and you can see some of the FameLab Alumni there...

Matthew Baker grew up in Dunedin, NZ, went to high school in Sydney, Australia, and studied maths and chemistry at the Australian National University in Canberra. He was a John Monash Scholar and after a brief stint at the Vrije Universiteit in Holland, working on kinesins, he used this funding to go to Oxford University where he studied a DPhil in Physics looking at the bacterial flagellar motor - the outboard motor for the salmonella speedboat.

Each year the British Science Festival offers five awards to honour professional scientists or engineers in the early stages of their career, who show outstanding skills in communication to a non-specialist audience. Congratulations to 2009 FameLabber Andrew Pontzen, who has won the 2011 Lord Kelvin Award Lecture for Physical Sciences and Mathematics.