Alexandra Fitzsimmons

I live in Peckham, one of the best bits of South London.  Currently, I work for a company that designs museums, and I have been involved with projects about everything from trains that changed the world to Catholic spirituality. I have also taught maths, worked in publishing and bookselling, and worked in the education department of a museum where my special skill was making paper versions of samurai warriors' helmets.

At Cambridge University I studied Maths and Classics, and I went on to do an MA in Archaeology at University College London. I especially enjoy mixing my disciplines: writing essays about how fractal mathematics might be of use to archaeologists, or considering the geometry of icebergs in a Greenlandic bay settled by Vikings.