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Laurie Winkless is a physicist and science writer. A contributor to Forbes Magazine , she has worked with schools and universities, the Royal Society , and The Naked Scientists .[1] [2] [3]
Winkless was born in Dundalk, Ireland , to engineer father Jackie and theatre director mother Rosemary. She received her B.A. (mod) in Physics with Astrophysics from Trinity College Dublin ,[4] Kennedy Space Center , then returned to school for her M.Sc. in Space Science from University College London . After completing her studies she worked in the Materials Team at the National Physical Laboratory for seven years, with a focus on thermoelectric energy harvesting. She researched the use of nanomaterials in the space industry for the European Space Agency .[3] [5] [6] [7]
While working on her PhD (which she did not complete) Winkless was physics news reporter for the BBC radio show and podcast The Naked Scientists. [8] [8]
In 2016 she moved to New Zealand with her husband Richard Jackett, a New Zealander. She works in science communications, media training and other science journalism work.[8]
Winkless' first book, Science and the City: The Mechanics Behind the Metropolis (2016),[9] [10] [11] [12] [13] Twitter account and approached Winkless for book ideas. Winkless refers to Science and the City as her "scientific love-letter to the great cities of the world."[14]
Her second book, Sticky: The Secret Science of Surfaces (2021)[15] [8]
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^ "Leading Lights" . National Physical Laboratory . National Physical Laboratory. Retrieved 13 March 2017 .
^ "Laurie Winkless" . Forbes . Forbes News Media LLA. Retrieved 13 March 2017 .
^ a b "Appliance of science is key for Laurie" . Irish Independent . Independent News & Media. Retrieved 13 March 2017 .
^ "Wild Geese Seminars" . www.tcd.ie . Trinity College Dublin. Retrieved 3 June 2023 .
^ "Laurie Winkless – Research Councils UK" . www.rcuk.ac.uk . Retrieved 16 March 2017 .
^ "Stage One New Musical Group" . Artist Trove . Retrieved 22 May 2017 .
^ Henderson, Mark (18 April 2009). "The science geeks fight back" . The Times . Retrieved 30 May 2017 .
^ a b c d Harvie, Will (4 March 2022). "Meet Laurie Winkless, Irish physicist turned Kiwi author" . Stuff . Retrieved 5 March 2022 .
^ Winkless, Laurie (2016). Science and the city: the mechanics behind the metropolis ISBN 978-1-4729-1321-0 OCLC 958124292 .
^ "Science and the City: The Mechanics Behind the Metropolis" . Publishers Weekly . Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 13 March 2017 .
^ Stewart, Ross (21 September 2016). "Science and the city: the mechanics behind the metropolis" . Chemistry World . The Royal Society of Chemistry [GB ]. Retrieved 16 March 2017 .
^ Kiser, Barbara (11 August 2016). "Books in brief" . Nature Magazine . Retrieved 16 March 2017 .
^ Tarlach, Gemma (6 October 2016). "What to Read in November" . Discover Magazine . Retrieved 16 March 2017 .
^ Trinastic, Jonathan. "Book Review: Science and the City" . Got Science . Science Connected. Retrieved 13 March 2017 .
^ Winkless, Laurie (2021). Sticky: the secret science of surfaces ISBN 978-1-4729-5084-0 OCLC 1258651346 .
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