Designer, paper artist, specialist for pop-up-cards and paper-engineering, developer of pop-up cards and foldable artworks made from paper and cardboard.
Peter Dahmen – paper engineer (#18)
Steven E. Bagienski – magic & wellbeing (#17)
Magic & Wellbeing researcher, close up magician, Realistic Optimist
Hana Ayoob – science illustrator (#16)
Creative producer of science events, science communicator and illustrator. She’s particularly interested in the intersection between art and science, and is passionate about bringing people together to explore the world around them. A co-founder of Minorities in STEM, a UK network to support and showcase BAME individuals working and studying in STEM fields. Her illustration style brings together traditional Indian mandalas and other patterns, with a love of anatomy and the weirder animals we share our planet with.
John Archer – comedy magic (#15)
The first man to fool Penn & Teller on ITV’s “Penn & Teller - Fool Us”. A past winner of the ‘Magic Circle Stage Magician of the Year’ and certainly one of the best comedy magicians in the UK today. Comedian, magician, actor, singer, musician, writer.
Ian Dunne – science showman (#14)
The stand up science showman. He's a chemist (originally), a lapsed pyrotechnician, a qualified teacher, author, educational polymath and a maker.
Stuart Nolan – deceptive technology (#13)
Unique performances that combine traditional disciplines of impossibility with original research into how we are deceived by language and gesture. Consulting, training, and facilitation. Mostly in technology development, tricky thinking, physical deception, attention control, and impossible innovation.
Edward Hilsum – stage magician (#12)
Edward Hilsum is the current Magic Circle Stage Magician of the Year. Obsessed with puzzles and making things from a very early age, Edward's natural desire to understand how illusions work, led him to magic and a first-class degree in Psychology. Through his work with his production company Love Variety, he is fast establishing himself as a sought-after writer and theatrical director.
Margaret Webb – the eureka moment (#11)
A researcher in cognitive psychology, investigating creativity and insight (if that name doesn’t quite resonate, it’s also known as the aha experience, eureka moment, the penny-drop, light-bulb, and gestalt click – among sundry others). She's interested in whether individual differences (such as particular personality types, or intelligence) are associated with a tendency towards having insight moments.
Vincent Bal – shadowologist (#10)
Filmmaker and Shadowologist from Belgium.
Wendy Sadler MBE – science made simple (#9)
STEM communicator, physics music graduate, passionate about performance and people. lecturer Cardiff uni & founder of science made simple
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