Calendar Geeks

Each page of the 14-month calendar (December 2010-January 2012) features a geek, a short biography and explanation of their photo shoot. The calendar, designed by Cosima Dinkel, also includes geek anniversaries, birthdays and key dates Photograph: 2011 Geek Calendar

Geek couple Brian Cox and Gia Milinovich. Cox is a physicist at Cern and presented the BBC’s popular Wonders of the Solar System documentary series. Milinovich is a film blogger and TV producer Photograph: Greg Funnell/2011 Geek Calendar

Brian Cox is involved in the Atlas experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, which was a doddle to fix compared with your average domestic toaster Photograph: Alice Bell/2011 Geek Calendar

Simon and Hari Singh feature on the 2012 planner page of the calendar. Singh senior's epic legal battle with the British Chiropractic Association led to the establishment of the Libel Reform Campaign Photograph: Ben Gilbert/2011 Geek Calendar

Sydney Padua, who works on special effects for movies and draws web comic The Thrilling Adventures of Babbage and Lovelace, is August. On the photo shoot she joked that Babbage would sue her for libel if he was still alive Photograph: Alice Bell/2011 Geek Calendar

Aleks Krotoski (July) gets wired ready for the shoot at the Guardian's studios. Krotoski fronts the Tech Weekly podcast and presented the Bafta award-winning BBC documentary series, The Virtual Revolution Photograph: Alice Bell/2011 Geek Calendar

Adam Rutherford (January) recreates a scene from one his favourite sci-fi movies Donnie Darko. Rutherford makes podcasts and videos for Nature and presents science shows for BBC radio and television Photograph: Ben Gilbert/2011 Geek Calendar

Dr Petra Boynton (November) is a lecturer in International Health Services Research at University College London and has investigated many aspects of sexual health. She has been described as the world's first evidence-based agony aunt. For the calendar she posed outside Cross Bones Graveyard in Southwark, where prostitutes and other outcasts were buried until its closure in 1853 Photograph: Greg Funnell/2011 Geek Calendar

Mementoes are still left at the graveyard 160 years after it closed Photograph: Alice Bell/2011 Geek Calendar

Stand-up comic and actor Chris Addison (December) plays with an inflatable space shuttle in the Green Room at the Wellcome Collection. Space obsessive Addison, well know for his role in The Thick of It and The Loop, created a BBC2 sitcom Lab Rats about the life of a university research team and once did a stand-up routine about the periodic table. Buy the Geek Calendar to support libel reform Photograph: Greg Funnell/2011 Geek Calendar