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Richard Firth-Godbehere, PhD, one of the world’s leading experts on disgust and emotions, is an independent researcher and consultant in the history, language, science and philosophy of emotions, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of the Emotions, Queen Mary University of London. He received a first-class degree from the University of London, alongside a Masters (MPhil) from the University of Cambridge and a PhD From Queen Mary, University of London.

Dr Thomas Fink is a research fellow in the Department of Physics who usually works on protein folding optimisation theory. Dr Yong Mao is a research fellow at the Department of Physics who usually works on polymers and colloids. They both wear ties.

Charles Fernyhough was born in Essex in 1968. He lives in County Durham with his wife and daughter.

Peter Forbes was the editor of Poetry Review from 1986 to 2002 and his anthology ‘Scanning the Century: The Penguin Book of the Twentieth Century in Verse’ was widely acclaimed. He translated Primo Levi’s personal anthology, ‘The Search for Roots’, (Penguin Press) in 2001 and Bloodaxe published his latest poetry anthology ‘We have come through’ in 2003.

Matthew Fort is Food and Drink Editor of the ‘Guardian’. He has numerous awards including two Glenfiddichs. His family comes from the Ribble Valley.

David Foster was born in 1944 and spent his early childhood in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. He was born in 1944 and spent his early childhood in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. He achieved academic distinction as a scientist but soon turned to writing, first as a poet and subsequently as an award-winning novelist. David Foster lives with his wife in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales.

Georgina is the author of Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life, a biography of the only British woman scientist to win a Nobel Prize and THE COMMON THREAD (with John Sulston) which is short listed for the 2002 Samuel Johnson Prize. Born in Hong Kong, Georgina has lived in Oxford for the past 19 years. She has worked as a science writer and broadcaster.

Maggie Fergusson is Secretary of the Royal Society of Literature and Literary Editor of Intelligent Life. Her first book, George Mackay Brown: The Life, won the Saltire First Book Prize, the Marsh Biography Award, the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award and the Scottish Arts Council Biography Award.