Person
Torok, Simon
- Occupation
- Earth scientist and Science communication
- Website
- https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3498-5373
Summary
Simon Torok was Chief Executive Office and Director of Scientell Pty Ltd from its establishment in November 2015. The aim of the business was to distil technical information for non-scientific audiences to communicate the importance of science to society.
Details
From his ORCID entry (February 2026):
He has published more than 200 newspaper, magazine and scientific journal articles, and co-authored 20 popular science and climate change books, several of which have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean and Hungarian. He is an experienced public speaker, having given hundreds of presentations to a variety of audiences, and has made numerous appearances on television and radio, including on live TV news broadcasts, chat shows and children's TV programs.
Simon has a Graduate Diploma in Science Communication from the Australian National University, and completed a PhD in climate change science at the University of Melbourne. He has managed communication for CSIRO in Australia and for the Tyndall Centre in England.
Chronology
- 1991 - 1995
- Education - PhD (Earth Sciences), University of Melbourne
- 1995
- Education - Graduate Diploma (Centre for Public Awareness of Science), Australian National University
- 4 November 2015 -
- Career position - CSO and Director, Scientell Pty Ltd
Related entries
Published resources
Journal Articles
- Torok, Simon; Goldie, James; Ashcroft, Linden, 'Communicating climate change has never been so important, and this IPCC report pulls no punches', The Conversation (2021), https://doi.org/10.64628/AA.35ss3gyc6. Details
Gavan McCarthy
Created: 12 February 2026