Roger Highfield

Roger Highfield
Roger Highfield in 2014 at Cabo da Roca
Born	Roger Ronald Highfield July 1958 (age 58) Griffithstown, Wales
Institutions	Science Museum Group New Scientist Daily Telegraph
Alma mater	Christ's Hospital University of Oxford (MA, PhD)
Thesis	Neutron scattering from chemical species (1983)
Notable awards	Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (FRSB) Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar Lecture (2012)
Spouse	Julia Brookes (m. 1992)
Children	one s one d
Website www.rogerhighfield.com
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Roger Ronald Highfield (born 1958 in Griffithstown, Wales) is an author,science journalist, broadcaster and director of external affairs at the Science Museum Group.

Highfield was educated at Chase Side Primary School in Enfield and Christ's Hospital in Horsham. He read Chemistry at Pembroke College, Oxford and was awarded a Master of Arts degree in Chemistry in 1980 followed by a Doctor of Philosophy for research on Neutron scattering from chemical species.

During his research career, he was the first to bounce a neutron off a soap bubble while he was working at the Institut Laue Langevin.

Highfield was the Science editor of British newspaper The Daily Telegraph for more than 20 years. During that time he set up a long running science writing award for young people, a photography competition, the 'scientists meet the media' party, and organised mass experiments from 1994 with BBC's Tomorrow's World, called Live Lab and Megalab, such as the 'Truth Test' with Richard Wiseman.

He was the editor of the British magazine New Scientist from 2008 to 2011, where he redesigned the magazine and introduced new sections, notably Aperture and Instant Expert.

As of 2011^[update] Highfield became the Director of External Affairs at the Science Museum Group.