Chiara Ceci Chaired the Panel for our first-ever BOU science communication awards. She is a naturalist and science communicator. Until recently she worked for the RSPB Centre for Conservation Science coordinating their science communications. Based near Cambridge, UK, she works in Italian as a science writer and translator. Chiara is also a Darwin expert and her research focuses on both Charles Darwin’s work and family life and has recently been appointed as a Fellow of the Linnaean Society.