Joanne Nova

Joanne Nova has 15 years of experience in explaining science as a professional speaker, TV host, radio presenter and book author.
Joanne delivers keynote speeches at conferences on the latest advances in science for professional groups like researchers, medical specialists, accountants, engineers, and teachers. Her favourite topics include discussing the medical revolution and how we may all outlive our superannuation. Joanne hosted a children’s TV series on Channel Nine, and has done over 200 radio interviews. Her favourite hands-on science experiments were published as a book in 2003.
After winning prizes in her science degree Joanne Nova joined the Shell Questacon Science Circus and spent five years touring Australia first as a performer, then as manager of the half million dollar exhibition with a team of twelve. As an associate lecturer at ANU Joanne helped to develop the Graduate Diploma in Science Communication in its earliest years. In an eclectic career Joanne has also managed programs bringing hands-on science to street kids in Melbourne and remote Aboriginal communities as well as working as a cartoonist, graphic designer and illustrator.
In the last two years Joanne Nova has focused on the science of monetary systems, financial history, the gold market, and has also become involved in communicating the science of carbon’s role in Climate Change. Joanne attended the UNFCCC in Bali Dec 07 as a delegate.