Joanne has 15 years of experience in explaining science as a professional speaker, TV host, radio presenter and book author.
Making sense of science.
Jo Nova is a science communicator, she’s presented science on TV, radio, on stage, in cartoons, exhibitions, reports and now in her blog which over 200,000 people visited in 2009.
After winning prizes in her science degree in molecular biology, Joanne joined the Shell Questacon Science Circus and spent five years touring Australia first as a performer, then as manager of the half million dollar exhibition with a team of twelve. As an associate lecturer at ANU Joanne helped to develop the Graduate Diploma in Science Communication in its earliest years.
In the last two years Joanne has focused on the science of monetary systems, financial history, the gold market, and has also become heavily involved in communicating the science of carbon’s role in Climate Change. Joanne attended the UNFCCC in Bali Dec 07 as a delegate, has spoken in New York at the International Climate Change Conference, and to Staffers of the US Senate in Washington, as well as to Australian leaders of business and banking at Consilium, for the Centre for Independent Studies.
Over 220,000 copies of The Skeptics Handbook have been published, printed and distributed in the US, Australia, NZ and Sweden. It was done entirely pro bono, and volunteers have translated it into French, German (twice), Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Turkish, Japanese, Danish, Portuguese, and Balkan. Italian and Thai versions are coming.
Previously Joanne delivered keynote speeches at conferences on the latest advances in science for professional groups like researchers, medical specialists, accountants, engineers, and teachers. Her favourite topics include discussing the medical revolution and how we may all outlive our superannuation.
Joanne hosted a children’s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews, many on the Australian ABC. Her favourite hands-on science experiments were published as a book in 2003. Joanne has also managed programs bringing hands-on science to street kids in Melbourne and remote Aboriginal communities as well as working as a cartoonist, graphic designer and illustrator.
Joanne Nova lives in Perth, Australia. She welcomes comments (but not spam) email: joanne AT joannenova.com.au (replace the ‘AT’ with’@’ to foil nasty agents.) She received no funding for the first Skeptics Handbook or to create this site. Donations help to cover costs, and made the second Handbook possible in late 2009. She and her husband are self employed.
More details about her speaking, TV, radio work and qualifications here.
