Mark Andrew Miodownik MBE FREng (/ˌmiːəˈdɒvnɪk/[3]) is a British materials scientist, engineer, broadcaster and writer at University College London.

Mark Miodownik says that his interest in materials came from an incident when he was stabbed in the back with a razor blade, on his way to school.

[10][11][12][13][14][15][16] He has also been key to the development of the concept of sensoaesthetics, which is the "application of scientific methodology to the aesthetic, sensual and emotional side" of materials.

[19] In 2006 he and two other scientists produced AfterImage, an installation that explores light and colour perception, which was exhibited at the Hayward Gallery.

In 2010 he placed 89 in a Times list of the 100 most influential people in science[22] and delivered that year's Royal Institution Christmas Lectures.

He has close ties to the Royal Institution of Great Britain and presented a Friday Evening Discourse in February 2013 entitled "Strange Material".