Brian Cox OBE, professor at University of Manchester and member of the ATLAS experiment at CERN, began his career not as a physicist but as a rock star. While in the band D’Ream, Brian finished a PhD in particle physics at the German Electron Synchrotron lab, DESY in Hamburg. In 2005, Brian was granted a Royal Society University Research Fellowship and has since received many awards for his work promoting science, including an OBE in 2010. On television Brian’s programmes include Wonders of the Universe, Wonders of the Solar System and Wonders of Life for the BBC.