Expert service

Every journalist registered with AlphaGalileo gains access to our Expert Service. The service enables contacts between journalists and experts via the online database. Experts will normally have a PhD and a position at a research organisation.

How it works

Having a journalist login, you can use our experts search engine that allows you to freely search for an expert by word, phrase or name. This is then matched against the specialisms, publications and name field of the expert database. The specialisms are the terms used by experts to describe their knowledge areas (they are not the same as AlphaGalileo keywords).

You can speed up your search by entering specific topics, for example 'breast cancer' rather than 'medical' or 'space missions' rather than 'space science'. You can use booleans (AND, OR, NOT) as well as wildcards, e.g. phys* to search for 'physiology' and 'physics'. If your search does not return any experts, try a slightly more general term or a synonym, for example 'cardiac' instead of 'heart attack'.

The list of names that is returned has links to the contact details of each expert, their full list of publications and specialisms, age, languages spoken and media experience.

AlphaGalileo does not monitor emails sent between journalists and experts nor can it guarantee an answer to them. We do not operate a database search service by telephone.