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I'm a journalist, writer and editor based in London. After a PhD in physics with an interdisciplinary twist in creative writing, I moved into science journalism and communications. You can read me in BBC Sky at Night Magazine, Nature Biotechnology and Physics, Physics World, among others. I've covered topics from biosensors to the ethics of machine learning, on subjects as large as cosmology and as small as quantum mechanics. I've also been a fiction writer and editor for the last ten years, and am a co-founder and the current fiction editor of Tamarind, an in print literary magazine looking at the intersections of art and science. Feel free to reach out!

Journalism

Browse a brief highlight of my work below.

Features and profiles:

Fiction Can Improve Communication Between Scientists and Society
SFTP Magazine

Biopharma foresees a ‘quantum advantage’: they could be right 
Nature Biotechnology
Companies are betting on the power of quantum computing to simulate molecular dynamics, solve drug design and even accelerate clinical studies.

European Space Agency's biggest missions
BBC Sky at Night Magazine
At ESA's 50th Anniversary, we look back at the organisations biggest achievements in the last half century.

Hertha Ayrton: pioneering inventor and suffragette
Physics World
Physicist, mathematician, engineer, inventor and suffragette – Hertha Ayrton was many things at a time when women were expected to simply keep house and raise a family.

We explore how compact lidar sensors are contributing to new developments in augmented reality and beyond

Columns:

We Can See Clearly Now... 
Nature Physics

Why scientists expect to find more interstellar objects like 3I/ATLAS
BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Light pollution is threatening the darkest skies on Earth. Here's how astronomers are fighting back
BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Earth could be sitting in the centre of a giant cosmic void, according to astronomers
BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Book Reviews:

Orbital fails to take flight
Nature Physics

The demise of an electronics giant: the men who killed General Electric
Physics World

Press:

I have experience in numerous aspects of press, including in the production of social media assets for ESA and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and JWST, specifically during the first light of the JWST. I was based in the communications unit at the European Southern Observatory during the release of the first images of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the centre of our Milky Way. I was also Press Officer at the European X-Ray Free Electron Laser in Hamburg, Germany. 

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