Lucy Rogers

Lucy Rogers Ph.D. is a science author, and inventor. She is currently the Visiting Professor of Engineering: Creativity and Communication at Brunel University London. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2020.
Rogers was a judge on the BBC2 show "Robot Wars" from 2016 to 2018.
Education.
After obtaining a BEng in mechanical engineering at Lancaster University she completed a PhD – studying how bubbles are formed in equipment used to fight petrochemical fires.
She attended NASA's Singularity University Graduate Studies Program in 2011, where she co-authored a report on orbital debris.
In 2019, she received an alumni award for "high-flying" Lancaster University graduates.
Public engagement with science.
Rogers is an active science communicator, giving public talks and media interviews.
In 2008 she published "It's ONLY Rocket Science", a plain English guide to the mechanics of space flight.
In 2013, she was shortlisted for the WISE Award.
The Rooke Award committee highly commended Rogers for her efforts to promote engineering to the public. She hosts "The DesignSpark Podcast" (titled "History Makers" for its first series) with comedians Bec Hill and Harriet Braine.
In 2018, she founded the Guild of Makers to bring together makers from all disciplines and skill levels, which ran until 2020.