About the Authors:
Georgina Ferry is a science writer, biographer, author and broadcaster. She lives in Oxford, UK, and writes about science, and scientists past and present. Georgina writes mainly about the life sciences, then and now, and also has a particular interest in women in science, and is fascinated by the lives of scientists and their interactions with the society in which they live.

Since 2018 she has made something of a speciality of writing scientific books which include: Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life (Granta 1998); The Common Thread: A story of science, politics, ethics and the human genome with John Sulston (Bantam 2002); A computer called LEO: Lyons Teashops and the world’s first office computer (Fourth Estate 2003); Max Perutz and the Secret of Life (Chatto & Windus 2007); EMBO in perspective: A half-century in the life sciences (EMBO 2014)

Georgina Ferry – Science writer (longferry.co.uk)

Inês Almeida has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and during her degree she worked at a local radio station, interviewing people from several fields, including technology. After graduating, she moved to Macau SAR (China) where she worked as a reporter at first and progressing to become editor for a local newspaper. During the six years she worked in Macau, she covered events such as an annual “Start-up Weekend” for women in technology and the launch of two new State Laboratories (one for the “Internet of Things and Smart Cities” and another for “Sciences of the Moon and Planet”). She also had the opportunity to visit the headquarters of tech giants such as Tencent and DJI in Shenzhen (China) and to interview some of the companies’ executives. In September 2021, after working in China, she moved to London to pursue a master’s degree in creative writing at the University of Roehampton which she completed, with merit, in 2023. She currently works for Aurora Metro and Supernova Books.

Bridget Greenwood is an accomplished and dynamic leader in the field of web3. The founder of The Bigger Pie, an organization that supports exceptional women in fintech and web3, and co-founder of The 200Bn Club, which aims to combat the lack of funding for female and underrepresented founders.