1. Vanessa Hill was born on 3 March 1987 and is an Australian television presenter and science communicator who is best known for her YouTube series BrainCraft.
10 Facts About Vanessa Hill
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Vanessa Hill was born in Sydney, Australia and developed her interest in science while walking dingoes around Taronga Zoo.
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In 2008, Vanessa Hill graduated from the University of New South Wales with a Bachelor of Science and then completed a Master of Science Communication at the Australian National University.
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Vanessa Hill is pursuing a PhD at Central Queensland University and has published papers on bedtime procrastination.
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In 2008, Vanessa Hill began working for CSIRO, a federal government agency for scientific research as an educator.
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In 2014, Vanessa Hill was hired by PBS after presenting her idea for BrainCraft as a stop-motion science series.
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Vanessa Hill further collaborated with PBS and Screen Australia in 2017 to direct and host Mutant Menu, a global exploration of new gene editing technology that was PBS Digital Studio's first long-form documentary, and in 2018 for Attention Wars, an online exploration of the behavioral psychology behind social media.
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Vanessa Hill has been outspoken about the hateful comments directed towards women on YouTube.
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In 2018, Vanessa Hill was featured in New York Times and Washington Post reports about new research that found women on YouTube receive a higher proportion of critical comments about their appearances.
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Vanessa Hill hosted the Crash Course Public Health series on YouTube.