SSP
Stratigraphy, Sedimentology and Palaeontology

Oliver Strimpel

Dr Oliver Strimpel is a keen amateur geologist, and a former astrophysicist and museum director at The Computer Museum, Boston. www.geologybites.com Twitter: @OliverStrimpel, @geology_bites Instagram: oliverstrimpel

Podcast conversations about geology with researchers making key contributions to our understanding of the Earth and the Solar System

May 17, 2021

I have always sought to grasp the widest spatial and temporal context in which we find ourselves.  So, after completing a physics degree at Cambridge University, I focused on cosmology and did a PhD on the structure of clusters of galaxies at Oxford University.  I then joined the Science Museum, London, where I discovered the challenges and rewards of conveying science to the public.  In 1984, The ...[Read More]