James Poskett is Assistant Professor in the History of Science and Technology at the University of Warwick. James' research engages broadly with the global history of science and technology from 1750 to the present day. His first book, Materials of the Mind: Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815–1920, was published in 2019. He writes regularly in the popular press and in 2013 was shortlisted for the BBC New Generation Thinker Award.