Michael Brooks is co-founder of editorial consultancy Scientification LLP.

Brooks, who holds a PhD in quantum physics, is a science author, journalist and broadcaster with more than two decades’ experience. He is a consultant writer at New Scientist magazine and the author of numerous books, including the bestselling 13 Things That Don't Make Sense; The Maths That Made Us (published in the US as The Art of More); The Quantum Astrologer’s Handbook; Hollywood Wants to Kill You; Science(ish); At The Edge of Uncertainty; The Secret Anarchy of Science; The Big Questions in Physics; Entanglement; and Quantum Computing and Communications. His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages.