Dr Roberto Trotta

As part of the Royal Albert Hall’s Festival of Science: Space join us for a pre-film talk in the Hall’s Gallery ahead of our screening of Star Trek in Concert.

Astrophysicist Dr Roberto Trotta will lead us through the ultimate voyage around the science (and the fiction!) behind some of your favourite sci-fi movies. From cloaking devices to alien civilizations, from warp drives to transporters, find out how sci-fi writers have boldly gone where no scientist has gone before – yet.

Dr Roberto Trotta is an acclaimed science communicator and theoretical cosmologist at Imperial College, London, where he studies the properties and nature of dark matter and dark energy. His award-winning first book for the public, The Edge of the Sky: All you need to know about the All-There-Is, endeavours to explain the universe using only the most common 1,000 words in the English language.