Lord Robert Winston

Professor of Science and Society & Fertility Expert

Lord Winston is one of the world’s most respected medical academics, widely regarded as our pre-eminent expert in reproductive medicine. Lord Winston is Professor of Science and Society and Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College.

"A leading fertility expert"

Topics

Human Fertility
Science
Innovation in Genetic Research
Human Body and Super Human
Investment Needs for Medicine in the New Millennium
Technology and Medicine in Y2K

Languages

He presents in English.

How he presents

Well known today to audiences throughout the world for his several BBC television series and the winner of numerous awards, Robert Winston possesses a great capacity for communicating often-complex science to a wide public audience.

Publications

2019
Science Lab
2018
Science Squad
2015
Superhuman
2013
That's Life!
2007
It's Elementary!
2006
Human: The Definitive Visual Guide (with Don E. Wilson)
2004
What Makes Me, Me? (won the Aventis Prize in 2005)

Talk to us about Robert Winston

In Detail

Lord Winston runs a gene transplant research programme in the Institute of Reproductive and Developmental Biology, where the team have achieved significant advances, particularly in endocrinology, IVF and genetics. A seasoned and popular television presenter, Lord Winston wrote and presented Superhuman, The Secret Life of Twins, Child of Our Time and the BAFTA Award winning The Human Body. He presented five series of Your Life in Their Hands for the BBC. In addition to his science-based programmes, Lord Winston displayed his musical abilities in Play It Again, where he learned to play a saxophone, from scratch, in five months.

What he offers you

Lord Winston explains how the human mind is expanding exponentially and advocates greater trust in scientists, in everything from food scares to climate prediction. As an after dinner speaker, he is thought provoking and engaging covering his career, his views and his wide interests with a terrific sense of humour.