Professor Alice Roberts is an anthropologist, author and broadcaster, and Professor of Public Engagement in Science at the University of Birmingham. Watch a video of her keynote.

Alice Roberts has been a familiar face on British TV since 2001 when she first appeared on Time Team Live, and has since presented several landmark series including BBC’s The Incredible Human Journey, Are We Still Evolving? and Origins of Us - as well as several Horizon programmes and the long-running Digging for Britain series. She’s written seven popular science books, including The Incredible Unlikeliness of Being, which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize in 2015.

Alice Roberts' keynote speech is sponsored by The Kavli Foundation.