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Mark Brake      

Award-Winning Popular Science Author Best Known for "Science of Superheros" & "Science of Harry Potter"

Mark Brake is an award-winning writer of popular science books that look at the links between science, history, and culture.

Mark has done science communication work in film, television, print, and radio on five continents.

He has communicated science for, among others, NASA, Seattle’s Science Fiction Museum, the BBC (including BBC4, CBBC, and BBC Stargazing Live), the Royal Institution, the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Nature, the British Council, the British Film Institute, Sky Movies, and the National Museum of Thailand.

Mark’s books have been translated into over a dozen languages, including Dutch, German, Chinese, Croatian, Italian, Japanese, Spanish (Mexico), Turkish, Czech, Slovak, Russian, and Polish.

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