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Roger Highfield

Roger Highfield is the Science Director at the Science Museum Group, a member of the UK's Medical Research Council and a visiting professor at the Dunn School, University of Oxford, and Department of Chemistry, UCL. He studied Chemistry at the University of Oxford and was the first person to bounce a neutron off a soap bubble. Roger was the Science Editor of The Daily Telegraph for two decades, and the Editor of New Scientist between 2008 and 2011. He has written or co-authored ten popular science books, most recently Stephen Hawking: Genius at Work, and has had thousands of articles published in newspapers and magazines.

The Moon could be used to store a backup copy of frozen cells from most Earth species to protect global diversity. Roger Highfield, Science Director, discusses this radical proposal to preserve biodiversity in the event of global catastrophe.

For an event in the IMAX last night, Roger Highfield discussed how much we trust computers with Professor Paul Brenner, a US veteran who works at the Center for Research Computing, University of Notre Dame, Indiana.