Ed was volunteering at the University of Edinburgh Press Office when the post at the Science Media Centre called him back to London in February 2008. He is first point of contact for media enquiries and is responsible for the Centre's relationship with external press and PR officers. Ed studied Zoology in Sheffield before heading north to do a PhD in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Edinburgh. Here, despite the joys of wasps and wonderful fieldwork spent diving in Oman, he began to indulge in a spot of science communication on the side. Whilst running workshops in schools, writing a booklet on evolution and training PhD students to be communicators, he won Famelab's 2007 Vodcast Award for talking about the sex lives of bedbugs.