About the author

Nigel Saunders

After completing my D. Phil in biochemistry at the University of York, I researched rheumatoid arthritis and later the rather nasty parasite that causes schistosomiasis. I started my teaching career at Bingley Grammar School in West Yorkshire, where I was also the Health and Safety Officer. I have been teaching at Harrogate High School in North Yorkshire since 1997 and I am the Head of Science there.

I have written over twenty science books for teenagers, including a series of twelve books about the Periodic Table and a series of four books about Energy Resources. I have also written half of the chemistry units in Longman's text books supporting Edexcel's 360 Science and Additional Science courses. You can see a selection of these books in the Bookshop. Other projects include writing the materials for the BBC Bitesize Key Stage 3 Science and GCSE Science sites; Heinemann's multimedia materials to support AS and A2 Chemistry (Salters and AQA); and the science questions for a GCSE revision game.

I am married (to another chemistry teacher!) and we have two grown up children, a black minilop rabbit called Mimas and a horse called Dylan.

That's Dylan on the right. He's bigger in real life, so you won't catch me riding him (it's much too far to fall).