Vanessa Hill

In 2019, Hill was announced as a AAAS Women in STEM ambassador.

Hill has been outspoken about the hateful comments directed towards women on YouTube. In 2018, 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.

Vanessa Hill is an Australian television presenter, producer and science communicator, who is best known for her YouTube series BrainCraft. Hill has hosted a PBS series of the same name since 2014.

In 2014, Hill was hired by PBS after presenting her idea for BrainCraft as a stop-motion science series. She 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.

Hill created her YouTube channel BrainCraft in 2014 has more than 500,000 subscribers. BrainCraft is part of the PBS Digital Studios network. Her videos address phenomena related to memory, sleep, brain hacks, and the science of food.

Hill was born in Sydney, Australia and developed her interest in science while walking dingoes around Taronga Zoo. In 2008, 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.

In 2008 Hill began working for CSIRO, a federal government agency for scientific research as an educator. In 2013 she won the CSIRO medal for excellence and hosted a series on DIY Experiments for the agency.