Free Frank Burnet is the Director of Graphic Science, a portfolio of innovative projects designed to take science to targeted audiences. He has also played a leading role promoting the discussion of the key issues facing individuals and organizations that undertake Science Communication activities, both within the United Kingdom and internationally.

Frank graduated with First Class Honours in Biochemistry from the University of St. Andrews and then spent the next year in the Sudan under the auspices of Voluntary Service Overseas. He worked briefly for Oxfam before accepting a place to read for a D.Phil in Neuroendocrinology at Oxford and on getting his D.Phil became a Lecturer in Biochemistry at the University of Kent.

In 1988, he was awarded a Media Fellowship and worked as a reserve medical correspondent on TODAY newspaper. The experience inspired him to initiate a series of activities designed to increase public awareness of science and also led to his appointment as Editor of The Biochemist. In 1996, he moved to Bristol to take up a Principal Lectureship in Science Communication at the University of the West of England. He now directs Graphic Science, an operation which uses varied means to take science to the public. Its lead activity over the last two years has been Science on the Buses, which began in Cardiff with funding through a Millennium Award and has since run in eight major cities in the UK. The campaign is now running in every capital city of the European Union, during European Science and Technology Week, 2002.