Natasha Martineau is head of Research Communications at Imperial College London where she works with colleagues to tell the story of Imperial’s research to audiences including academics, policy makers, journalists and the general public. She is Editor-at-Large of the Imperial magazine, and is currently evolving the College’s events programme to produce a programme of public research events and a series of creative partnerships with other organisations to engage with new audiences.

Natasha is a zoology graduate from the University of Oxford, and holds an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial. She has spent most of her career finding ways to make research more accessible to public audiences, and has also worked for Current Biology, the British Science Association, BBSRC, the Royal Society and the Environment Agency.