ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS

Dr Birgitta Olofsson is a scientist, former Director of Studies in Biology and Bye-Fellow of Newnham College, turned film maker after a Digital Filmmaking course at Hills Road College. She collaborates with Jonnie Howard Film and has produced several films with a focus on scientists and their life stories. She particularly seeks to promote women researchers, both historical and contemporary. Most of all she wants to tell a story: vivid, compelling and unique.

Dr Maria Ubiali is the Sheila Edmonds Lecturer in Mathematics at Newnham and Principal Investigator of the ‘Physics Beyond the Standard Proton’ project at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. Maria set up and runs Newnham’s Maths Summer School. Her work tackles a number of open fundamental questions about the structure of the proton and the origin of our Universe.