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Robert Matthews
email: rajm(at-sign)physics.org
Mobile (+44)(0)790 651 9126
Journalism
- Science consultant and writer, BBC Focus
- Freelance columnist, Financial Times, Evening Standard, Daily Express, The First Post
- Science Correspondent, The Sunday Telegraph, 1990 - 2005
- Technology Correspondent, The Times, 1987 - 1989
- Freelance contributor, The Economist, The Sunday Times 1982-1987
- Appearances as academic commentator on Channel Four News, Tomorrow's World, BBC Radio 4
Today, World Service, and many TV and radio programmes in the UK and world-wide.
Recent national press cuttings
Media training
Academic
- Visiting Reader, Aston University Dept of Information Engineering 2002-date
- Visiting Fellow, Aston University Dept of Information Engineering 1993-2002
- Fellowship, Royal Statistical Society, 1997
- Chartered Physicist, 1996
- Membership, Institute of Physics, 1996
- MA(Oxon) 1984
- BA (Hons) Physics, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, 1981
- Fellowship, Royal Astronomical Society, 1980
Awards
- Specialist Writer of the Year (Highly Commended) - Periodical Publishers Awards 2005
- Specialist Writer of the Year (Highly Commended) - Periodical Publishers Awards 2004
- Specialist Writer of the Year (Highly Commended) - Periodical Publishers Awards 2003
- Feature Writer of the Year - Association of British Science Writers 2000
- Columnist of the Year - Institute for Economic Affairs, 2000
- C Oswald George Best Paper Prize, Royal Statistical Society, 1997
- IgNobel Prize in Physics for studies of Murphy’s Law 1996
Other distinctions
Academic
- Member, Ethics Working Party of EU Biopattern initiative 2005-date
- Science consultant, Department of Education/Arla National Schools Project, 2001
- Lecturer, Royal Institution, February 1998
- Membership of Royal Statistical Society Media Working Party, 1997
Books
Refereed publications
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