Jay at Fremantle Earth Science Day dissecting meteorites
Jay at Fremantle Earth Science Day dissecting meteorites

Jay Ridgewell is a science outreacher who’s presented travelling science shows and workshops with Scitech, Questacon and the Edinburgh International Science Festival. She loves finding out how and why things work and is learning more about meteors, geology and mining in her role as Geoscience Outreach Officer at Curtin University. She also loves to travel and takes every opportunity to get out and about talking and doing science in schools, shopping centres and public events.

She studied biochemistry and primary teaching at the Queensland University of Technology and science communication at the Australian National University in Canberra.