Dr Francisco Diego is a keen populariser of astronomy and has extensive experience as a planetarium producer/presenter, lecturer, author and broadcaster.
Dr Francisco Diego is a Senior Research Fellow at University College London, vice president of the UK Association for Astronomy Education and a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society.
He has appeared on TV series like Stephen Hawking's Universe and BBC's The Planets. He holds a Science in Society fellowship from the Science and Technology Facilities Council to produce The Mind of the Universe, a series of public and school lectures on astrophysics, cosmology and life in the universe, as part of the International Year of Astronomy 2009.