Niraj (Nij) Lal

Dr Niraj (Nij) Lal is an ANU Visiting Fellow and host of the ABC’s kids' podcast Imagine This. He graduated from the University of Cambridge with a PhD in physics as a Gates Scholar in 2012 and has appeared on Play School, Catalyst, and heaps more. His awards include the 2021 Eureka Prize for Promoting Understanding of Science and the 2022 Royal Societies of Australia and New Zealand Piasecki Prize for Outstanding Writing on Social Change. He lives in Melbourne with his partner Sally and their three kids, and tries to be on tech less but gee it’s not easy.