Dr Susannah Eliott FTSE

Susannah is the CEO of the Australian Science Media Centre, a not for profit organisation that works with the media and the scientific community to the increase the availability of science information for the public. She has a PhD in cell and developmental biology from Macquarie University, a Graduate Diploma in Journalism from the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and an honorary doctorate in science communication from the University of Adelaide. Susannah has more than 30 years of practical experience in science communication with the interface between science and the media being her primary interest. During the 1990s she helped establish major science communication projects such as the Horizons of Science forums, Science in the Bush and Science in the Pub and was National Secretary of the Australian Science Communicators when Alison Leigh was President.