Will is a science writer, specializing in astronomy, based in the UK. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and has appeared many times on television and radio to promote astronomy and science: from talking about the 1999 total solar eclipse live from Torquay, the latest exciting space mission, or what’s in the night sky and has even found himself being filmed inside the bowl of a 30m wide satellite dish! He has given many public lectures around the UK since 1998 and has also appeared twice on the BBC’s flagship astronomy program The Sky at Night.
Will has written numerous articles for the UK’s top astronomy magazines including Astronomy Now and BBC Sky at Night magazine (where he currently works as staff writer). He has also worked as a science writer, writing press releases and other outreach material, for the European Space Agency’s Hubble Space Telescope press office in Munich. He is a former news editor of Astronomy Now and also holds a degree in astrophysics from UCL, in London.
Today Will is the co-presenter and producer of BBC Sky At Night magazine’s monthly podcast. His other writing credits include several scripts for the very popular European Space Agency video-podcast the Hubblecast and as the Assistant Editor of the first issue of the International Astronomical Union’s Communicating Astronomy with the Public Journal. Will also devotes time to working on his first popular astronomy book, due to be published internationally by Springer in 2009. In his spare time Will loves to be outdoors, climbing (thanks to Rose) and surfing, though not all at the same time.
