Dr. Simon Torok works in communication and marketing for Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). He has a Ph.D in Earth Sciences from the University of Melbourne and a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication from the Australian National University (ANU). Simon has worked as editor of CSIRO’s Helix magazine, and as a climate communicator in the United Kingdom. He has done science talkback segments on radio and has published dozens of newspaper, magazine and scientific journal articles. He hopes one day to invent a car radio that features a ‘record’ button, and would really like to see someone develop an analogue clock radio.
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