Martin Archer is a Physicist, studying for a PhD in Space Physics at Imperial College London. He holds a first class honours Masters Degree in Physics and Theoretical Physics from Imperial and was one of the top students in his year, winning many awards for his essays and academic achievements including the Callendar Prize 2006 and the Royal College of Science Association Prize 2005.
Martin became a published scientist whilst still an undergraduate. Working on the Cluster space mission he implemented a new technique making it possible to measure the full size and shape of waves in the solar wind upstream of the Earth for the first time, with his findings being published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Space Physics. It is this work which has inspired his PhD research, which includes working on the Trio-Cinema CubeSats with the University of California Berkeley and Kyung Hee University South Korea.
Martin is currently working with the Royal Institution developing a live science show on the subject of DJ Physics; he writes, produces and co-presents a science podcast aimed at young people, Droppin’ Science, which reviewers have called “cool, sassy and irreverent but credible at the same time”, “a proper assault on the ears” and “that the conversation, content and production is… similar to the best-produced entertainment podcasts” as featured on the government’s Science So What? [So Everything] initiative; and he has also developed his own software to turn the Nintendo Wii controller into a DJ tool, dubbed WiiJing, enabling him to play, mix and muck about with tunes just by waving his arms around.