Karl Kruszelnicki used to be a "proper pukka scientist, engineer and doctor", but is currently an author and science commentator on radio and television. He is the, Julius Sumner Miller (Watch interesting videos here!) Fellow at the University of Sydney, in the Science Foundation of the Physics Department.
Away from the media, he has worked as a physicist, labourer, roadie for bands (including Bo Diddley), car mechanic, filmmaker, hospital scientific officer, biomedical engineer (when he designed and built a machine to pick up electrical signals from the human retina), TV weatherman, and medical doctor at The Kids Hospital in Sydney.
In addition to his degrees in Physics and Mathematics, Biomedical Engineering, and Medicine and Surgery, he has studied several non-degree years at various universities in Astrophysics, Computer Science and Philosophy. He speaks at primary, secondary and tertiary institutions, and is an after-dinner speaker, and corporate video writer and presenter.
In the media, he was a
writer and presenter for the first series of Quantum, and has been a science
reporter on TV ever since (The Midday Show, Good Morning Australia, and is
currently a regular on Channel 7's Sunrise etc). In radio, he speaks on-air for
about 4 hours every week. This includes a national weekly,
1-hour science talkback show on Triple J which attracts up to 300,000
people (about 1.5% of the Australian population). This show sometimes "crashes"
the switchboard, when the number of incoming calls reaches 7,000 per 15 minute
window. He has written
22 books.
His hobbies include travelling through the outback, family fun, fitness, music,
dancing a lot, and writing for 4WD magazines. His last four popular science
books have all been No. 1 Popular Science best sellers in Australia (according
to the New Scientist).
Karl's latest book, 'It
Ain't Necessarily So...Bro' was launched by rocket at Bondi Beach, Australia,
in November 2006
http://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/aboutkk.htm
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To contact
Dr Karl...
Dr Karl S. Kruszelnicki,
Julius Sumner Miller Fellow,
The Science Foundation for Physics,
School of Physics, Building A-28,
The University of Sydney, NSW 2006
Tel ++ 61-2-9909-0033
Tel ++ 61-2-9351-2963
Fax ++ 61-2-9351-7726
email 1: caroline@physics.usyd.edu.au
email 2: drkarl@claxtonspeakers.com
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