If you drew a Venn Diagram featuring the two sets "science" and "comedy," you might not expect to find much at their intersection. But Brian Malow draws on two decades as a stand-up comedian and fifteen years working in science communication to help scientists communicate more effectively with general audiences. In a presentation that promises to both amuse and educate, Brian will offer advice on a range of topics including stage presence, establishing rapport with audiences, using analogies and storytelling, what to leave in and what to leave out, and uses and abuses of PowerPoint. 

Although fun and upbeat, the presentation is chock-full of concrete advice applicable to not only live presentations but writing and audio and video content. By request, Brian can draw on his background in video production to emphasize essential guidelines for scientists wishing to create science videos or podcasts.  

About Brian:
Science Comedian Brian Malow is a stand-up comedian and science communicator whose unique blend of comedy and science has been entertaining and enlightening audiences from TEDx Berkeley to Los Alamos National Lab to the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings in Germany, for whom Brian has been conducting interviews with Nobel laureates and young scientists for more than a decade. 

Brian has produced science videos for Time Magazine and Slate, and written for Scientific American, American Scientist, and Symmetry magazines. He has worked with NASA, NSF, AAAS, NIST and many other acronyms, as well as Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Johns Hopkins Medicine, The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, The University of Texas Austin, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Merck. 

The California Academy of Sciences named Brian one of their inaugural Osher Science Communication Fellows.

In the public sphere Brian has appeared on Science Friday, Neil Tyson’s StarTalk Radio, the Science Channel, the Weather Channel, and the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. He’s been featured in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Washington Post. You can see him currently streaming in the documentary “Science Friction” and on “The Unbelievable” hosted by Dan Aykroyd on the History Channel.