Formerly director of FameLab, Cheltenham Science Festival’s search for new talent in Science Communication, and of engaging cogs, a forum for public discussion around engineering, Timandra now works as a consultant and trainer in sharing science and engineering with the public. She hosts and facilitates events for organisations including the Wellcome Collection and the British Council. Science writing work includes writing scripts and text for interactive exhibitions in the UK and abroad.

Timandra recently returned from a very successful run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with Your Days Are Numbered: the maths of death, a comedy written and performed with Matt Parker and funded by the Wellcome Trust.

She spent five years performing solo stand up comedy after running away from the circus, and also performs as half of The Comedy Research Project, a double act with scientist Dr. Helen Pilcher. Timandra’s experience of compèring and improvised comedy stands her in good stead in hosting, interviewing and live broadcasting.

She has written and directed two short films – Reported Missing can currently be seen on the International festival circuit. With Linda Cotterill she wrote a comedy, No Future in Eternity, which was broadcast twice on BBC Radio 4 after a successful run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Timandra won the 1997 Independent newspaper column-writing competition with a short piece on goat-borrowing.  She now writes for newspapers and magazines including the Daily Telegraph, WIRED and BBC Focus on science, technology and motoring.