Introducing Adam Selinger

We would like to welcome Adam Selinger to the MyScience Project team. Adam is the new Executive Officer of the Science Foundation for Physics within the University of Sydney. He is a graduate of science (ecology and evolutionary psychology) and science communication from the Australian National University. He worked at Questacon where he acquired his enthusiasm for talking science with public audiences. He then traveled widely working in science centres in Canada, Norway and the UK. One highlight was working as the science communicator and production manager for the Edinburgh International Science Festival that incorporated outreach programs and media activities.

Since returning to Australia, Adam has worked for the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and Science Manager at British Council Australia. Working as a consultant, Adam’s clients included UNSW, Sydney Marathon Festival, Australia Day Fun Run, Premier’s Gala Concerts and Cosmos magazine. Adam created ‘Cafe Scientific’ and ‘Science on Tap’, variations of the well-known ‘Science in the Pub’ for public engagement with science issues.

Running a science communication business, Adam introduced and championed the electronics workshop, ‘MadLab’, which has featured at the Australian Science Festival, Canberra since 1996 and at events throughout Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. As the creative mind behind the not-for-profit company, Children’s Discovery Museum Ltd, Adam developed and staged ‘Kids Dig @ The Rocks’, ‘Build It’, ‘Tour of the Tummy’ and other shows and hands-on workshops which regularly run during school holidays.

We are very excited to have Adam on the MyScience team and look forward to working with him as we expand the program in 2008!