Hermione Cockburn
Hermione Cockburn is an earth scientist, television and radio presenter, and author.
She is currently Scientific Director at Our Dynamic Earth which is the only science centre in Britain dedicated to the story of our planet.
She has presented various BBC television series including What the Ancients Did For Us, Rough Science, The Nature of Britain, Midsummer Live, and Fossil Detectives for which was wrote an accompanying book. She has also presented various programmes for BBC Radio 4 on subjects ranging from lead pollution and lasers to reservoirs and greenhouses, and an award winning series on bacteria.
Her favourite moment from working in broadcasting was interviewing Sir David Attenborough about his life-long love of fossils. She has a PhD in geomorphology and has worked all over southern Africa, Australia and Antarctic studying how landscapes evolve.
She lives in Edinburgh which was home to the founder of modern geology James Hutton and she is always keen to tell people stories about the Earth including her two young sons who like nothing more than a day at the beach.
