Vanessa Gardos

After many hours spent pouring over a hot microscope and feeding probiotic bacteria to mice, Vanessa decided to pack her bags and run away to the circus - literally. She joined a science circus and travelled around Australia performing science shows to kids and adults. 2007 finds her back in her hometown of Sydney doing a whole number of things including writing, doing science radio, working with museums and listening to as much music as physically possible in one lifetime. Vanessa is leaping like an Eastern Blue Tongue lizard at the honour of being the very first Australian inky correspondent.