Meet Anna Ploszajski :
Anna Ploszajski is a materials scientist, engineer and
science communicator, and in 2017 was named Young Engineer of the Year by the
Royal Academy of Engineering. She regularly performs stand-up comedy about
materials and making at venues from the local pub to the Cheltenham Science
Festival, and was a UK finalist of FameLab 2017, the world’s biggest science
communication competition.
Her public science demos are notorious, and she has demonstrated experiments such as her hand-built Rubens’ Tube to adult and family audiences at venues like the famous Faraday Lecture Theatre at The Royal Institution. Anna has appeared on numerous national radio and TV programs discussing materials engineering, and produces her own podcast called ‘rial talk. She is a regular contributor to Materials World magazine, and has written a chapter on smart materials for Jim Al-Khalili’s new popular science book, 'What’s Next?'.
Her public science demos are notorious, and she has demonstrated experiments such as her hand-built Rubens’ Tube to adult and family audiences at venues like the famous Faraday Lecture Theatre at The Royal Institution. Anna has appeared on numerous national radio and TV programs discussing materials engineering, and produces her own podcast called ‘rial talk. She is a regular contributor to Materials World magazine, and has written a chapter on smart materials for Jim Al-Khalili’s new popular science book, 'What’s Next?'.