Witchel, Dr. Harry

Humour

http://www.harrywitchel.com/

Harry Witchel received his Ph.D. in Physiology from the University of California at Berkeley, and has since continued his research at the Medical School in Bristol (UK). He is often invited to give lectures at multinational corporations, prestigious academic institutions and government regulatory bodies including Pfizer, Novartis, Harvard and the MHRA (Institute of Directors, London). In 2003 he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Florence, Italy, and in 2004 he received the national honour of being awarded by the British Association for the Advancement of Science The Charles Darwin Award Lecture. Dr. Witchel has been consulting at the level of Director of Biology for Electronic Biosciences, a San Diego/Washington-based nanotechnology start-up. He also consults and lectures in the business and legal community on topics concerning communication, assessment and education. His writings on these topics have appeared nationally in The Financial Times, The Times Higher Educational Supplement and the Times Educational Supplement.

Dr. Witchel also inspires young people for the future. For the last two years he has appeared regularly on BBC Television's Mind Games. He is a very popular lecturer at science festivals throughout the UK, including the Winchester Festival of Art and the Mind, and the Cheltenham Festival of Science, where he and Dr. Andrew Bass have given a series of sold out lectures every year since its inception. He has also participated in many other public programmes for The Royal Society, The Royal Institution, Midweek with Libby Purves on Radio 4, Café Scientifique, the Dana Centre for the Brain, and the University of Bristol, where his most recent lecture broke all the attendance records in the three year history of their lecture series.