Zahaan Bharmal is the author of The Art of Physics, a book about the hidden, surprising, and sometimes beautiful ways in which physics can help us to make sense of very human problems. Zahaan read Physics at the University of Oxford and won a Fulbright Scholarship to Stanford University where he earned an MBA. He spent his early career as a policy adviser and speechwriter for the British Government and the World Bank, and is currently a senior director with Google. Outside work, Zahaan writes about science for The Guardian and has won NASA’s Exceptional Public Achievement Medal for services to science communication. He is a trustee of the National Autistic Society and lives in Yorkshire with his wife and two young sons.
