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Speakers
Adam Tinworth
UK
Adam Tinworth has been a journalist since 1994 and a blogger since 2001. He currently works as Editorial Development Manager for Reed Business Information, the publishers of New Scientist. He works across the whole range of RBI's titles, helping retrain journalists for the digital era as well as consulting on strategies and business models around the areas of social media and social media communities. He blogs at http://www.onemanandhisblog.com
Akin Jimoh
Nigeria
Akin Jimoh is the program director of Development Communications Network (DEVCOMS), Nigeria, a media development organization focusing on science communication and health promotion through the media. He is one of the leading trainers and mentors in science and public health journalism. For several years he was dedicated to the promotion of scientific literacy in Africa through capacity building for journalists to excel in science and public health communication. A former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT, he has over 20 years of professional science and public health journalism. Jimoh is presently the Anglophone Group Coordinator in the WFSJ Science Journalism Cooperation (SjCOOP) project and a mentor in SjCOOP's first phase.
Alaa I Ibrahim
Egypt
Dr. Alaa Ibrahim is an assistant professor of physics at the American University in Cairo (on full-time secondment from Cairo University, where he is a tenured faculty). Dr. Ibrahim received his graduate degrees from the University of Maryland at College Park and NASA GSFC and George Washington University, where he remains an adjunct faculty.
Dr. Ibrahim leads the Egyptian Space Astrophysics Group. His most significant research include the discovery of a new class of cosmic objects known as Transient Magnetars that possess the highest magnetic field in the Universe.
In addition to his teaching and research activities, Dr. Ibrahim works passionately on science & technology communication, development, and public service activities to enhance the public perception and understanding of science and its role in development, sustain and empower the intellectual and scientific capital in developing countries, and nuture the next generation of scientists.
Aleem Ahmed
Pakistan
Aleem Ahmed is the founder, chief editor and publisher of the monthly Global Science -an Urdu-language science magazine from Karachi, Pakistan. He became a science journalist as a teenager. After working for several media outlets for about 10 years, he launched Global Science in January 1998. He currently also contributes to Daily Jang, an Urdu-language newspaper from Pakistan, and the Pakistani English-language newspaper Daily Dawn. He is a founding member of Bazm e Sciency Adab (Scientific Literary Society), a member of International Science Writers Association (ISWA), and a freelance science contributor for the London-based SciDev.Net.
So far, he has written more than 4,500 popular science articles (mostly in Urdu) covering almost every aspect of science and technology.
He terms himself as "an out-spoken advocate for the public understanding of science," and firmly believes that science can be popularized as easily in any language of the world as it can be popularized in English.
Alejandro Agostinelli
Argentina
Alejandro Agostinelli is a freelance journalist specialized in pseudosciences and contemporary beliefs, from his early interest in Ufology. Since 1982 he writes about new religious movements, paranormal events and unusual beliefs in newspapers and magazines, such as Conozca Más, Descubrir, NEO and Pensar (Ibero American Magazine for Science and Reason).
In 1990 he was publishing editor in El Ojo Escéptico and co-founded CAIRP - the first Argentinean skeptical group devoted to the study of pseudoscience.
In 2002, Agostinelli was editor of Dios! (www.dios.com.ar ) and the blogs Magia Crítica (www.magiacritica.com.ar ) and Factor 302.4 (www.factor302-4.com.ar). He is author of “Invasores” - Invaders. Real stories about extraterrestrials in Argentina (2009). He abandoned the skeptic militancy in favor of a more anthropological approach.
Alex Abutu
Nigeria
Alex Abutu graduated with Bachelor of Arts degree in mass communication from Benue State University, Nigeria in 1999 and went straight into journalism at the News Agency of Nigeria. He was a mentee in the World Federation of Science Journalists' first mentoring programme and a media fellow with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change since 2008. He won Canada's International Development Research Centre's 2010 science journalism fellowship and was recognized as one of the journalists that changed the world at the 2009 WCSJ. Alex is now a freelance science journalist contributing articles to www.scidev.net and a host of on-line sites and newspapers in Nigeria.
Alexander Sergeev
Russia
I encountered science in my 8th grade. I'd been collecting formulas from various scientific books, to build numerical model of white dwarf star and finally I spent all winter holidays pressing keys of my old calculator. Later, a half-page FORTRAN program reiterated all calculations in 22 seconds; so I became a programmer. However, programming is too introverted exercise, and in 1999 I became a deputy editor of the Russian version of BYTE, a computer magazine. I met Internet boom in creating the Russian mirror of NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day web-site, and this was my return to science. Presently, I'm a science editor at Radio Liberty and at Vokrug Sveta, a leading Russian popular science magazine. In 2004, with a prime idea to raise the level of science journalism in Russia, me and colleagues have established an informal Science Journalist Club, which is more than hundred of members now.
Alexandra Witze
USA
Alexandra Witze is a contributing editor with the biweekly magazine Science News, published by the Society for Science and the Public. She writes news and features, primarily about the physical sciences, from her base in Boulder, Colorado.
Between 2005 and 2010 she was U.S. bureau chief for Nature, the international weekly journal of science, while serving as features editor and then news editor. Witze has also worked as a general science reporter at the Dallas Morning News in Texas, and as an editor at the first Earth magazine, in Wisconsin. Her reporting has taken her to the North Pole, volcanoes in Iceland, and an earthquake zone in China. Among her many awards are the National Association of Science Writers' Science-in-Society award, shared with Tom Siegfried for a series of articles on the environmental effects of nanotechnology, and the American Geophysical Union's Walter Sullivan award for features, for a story on the sunken Kerguelen plateau.
Alice Bell
UK
Alice Bell is senior teaching fellow in the Science Communication Group at Imperial College, London. She is also a visiting academic fellow at Warwick's Department of Sociology and a freelance science writer. Her PhD examined children's popular science books and she has a continued interest in science communication for young people.
Alison Binney
Australia
Born on a farm in Australia in 1971, Alison Binney is an award-winning print journalist, visual communications expert, senior web developer and entrepreneur. Alison has worked since 1991 in the communications industry in Australia, Canada, England and Germany. After championing the sports beat and rural news rounds in Australia, Alison ventured abroad to freelance and manage communication and design agencies in London. Alison then set up her own communications and web consultancy in Germany in 2005 and in 2008 she founded the New Science Journalism Project - an online science magazine publishing news produced by newcomers to the world of science media. Alison blogs her research and observations about everything that is inspiring science media at So Science Media. She is currently a science writer and communicator for Econnect Communication, Australia. Alison is also working toward postdoctoral studies into science media at the University of NSW, Australia.
Alok Jha
UK
Alok Jha is a science correspondent at the Guardian. In addition to writing news and comment in the Guardian, he presents the Science Weekly podcast and looks after the Guardian's science website. A physics graduate from Imperial College London, he has been at the Guardian since the launch of its science supplement, Life, in 2003.
Ames Dhai
South Africa
Professor Dhai is the Director of The Steve Biko Centre for Bioethics at the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School. She started off her career as a medical doctor when she obtained an MBChB through the University of Natal. She thereafter specialised as an Obstetrician, Gynaecologist through the Colleges of Medicine, South Africa. She subsequently obtained an LLM through the Law School of the University, and a Diploma in International Research Ethics at the University of Cape Town. She was appointed Head of Bioethics, Medical Law and Research Ethics at the Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine in 2004, and in January 2006 took on the position of Head of Bioethics at the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School. Her special interest is research ethics. She is editor-in-chief of the South African Journal of Bioethics and Law and Associate Editor of the South African Medical Journal.
Ananyo Bhattacharya
UK
Ananyo Bhattacharya is Nature's chief online editor. His first break in journalism was as a reporter for Research Fortnight, where he was also news editor. After that, he was deputy editor, and later acting editor, of Chemistry World before moving to Nature in September 2008. Ananyo has a degree in physics and a PhD in protein crystallography.
Andrew Jack
UK
Andrew Jack has been as a journalist for the Financial Times since 1990. He currently writes about health and pharmaceuticals, based in London. He was the paper's Moscow correspondent and then bureau chief in 1998-2004, and previously Paris correspondent, financial correspondent, general reporter and corporate reporter. He is author most recently of Inside Putin's Russia (Granta, London 2005; Oxford University Press, New York, 2005; All, Bucharest, 2007) and The French Exception (Profile, London 2001; Editions Odile Jacob, Paris 2000).
Jack was awarded a Kaiser Family Foundation mini-fellowship in global health reporting in 2008. He has also received the Grand prix de l'association des anciens élèves du centre des hautes etudes d'assurances, the ACCA accountancy journalist of the year award, and was a member of an FT team winning the British press awards.
A geography graduate from St Catharine's College, Cambridge, he was the Joseph Hodges Choate Memorial Fellow at Harvard University, a New York City Government Urban Fellow, and worked as a consultant and freelance journalist. He is a trustee of Pushkin House, a London-based centre for Russian culture. He has written articles for medical journals including the BMJ and the Lancet, and specialist reports on the French Insurance Industry, Audit Committees, Networking and Work Shadowing; as well as chapters in books on Russia, ethics and financial reporting.
Anna Wagstaff
UK
Anna Wagstaff is Assistant Editor of Cancer World magazine (www.cancerworld.org). She has a background in newspapers and in medical editing, and currently specialises in writing about all aspects of cancer, from the scientific and medical, to the economic, social and political. She is an experienced media trainer, and enjoys working with other journalists from all sectors of the media, as well as with health professionals and patients, from different countries and cultures, to promote well-informed and critical coverage of cancer that can improve understanding and awareness of the disease, give a voice to patients and their families, and help push action against cancer much higher up the political agenda.
Anna Wexler
Israel
Anna Wexler is a freelance science writer based in Tel Aviv, Israel. Wexler holds two bachelor's of science degrees from MIT, one in Brain and Cognitive Science and the other Humanities and Science with a focus in Writing. As an undergraduate, she co-authored a neuroscience paper and several abstracts, and won various awards for her neuroscience research. After completing internships at PBS's NOVA and at Harvard's Office of News and Public Affairs, Wexler ultimately decided to pursue a career in science communication. Since her move to Israel in 2008, Wexler has been writing about science for numerous outlets in Israel. She is the only member of the Israeli Association of Science Communicators who writes primarily in English. Wexler is also a documentary filmmaker--she was selected as a 2007-2008 WGBH Filmmaker-in-Residence for her film Unorthodox--and an avid adventure traveler whose travel writing has appeared in numerous magazines and books, including Maxim, Budget Travel and Best Women's Travel Writing 2011.
Antonio Regalado
Brazil
Antonio Regalado is a freelance foreign correspondent based in Sao Paulo, Brazil . He writes about science and technology in Latin America for Science, Scientific American, and other publications. Previously, Antonio was a science reporter for the Wall Street Journal in New York and an editor at Technology Review. He is a graduate of Yale University in physics and has a master's degree in journalism from New York University's Science, Health & Environmental Reporting Program.
Barbara Drillsma
UK
An award-winning journalist, trained in the days before mobile phones and the internet, Barbara Drillsma has worked on weekly and daily newspapers, magazines and trade publications throughout the UK. She specialises in making science easily accessible to the general public and has acted as a media consultant for outlets as diverse as Channel Four News; New Scientist; the UK's universities; a diving company in Cyprus; art fairs and science festivals.
For 17 years Barbara was the voice of the UK's Association of British Science Writers and for the past five years has held positions on the board of EUSJA.
As an author and editor, Barbara is looking for an idea for a best-selling work of fiction. She is drawn to the idea of exploring the lives of the varying communities living alongside the gas pipeline, tracing the shared tensions and intrigues, similarities and differences in their lives.
Barry Green
South Africa
Barry Green completed his PhD at the University of Cape Town in 1984 and was a lecturer at Stellenbosch University before spending ten years as a research scientist at the University of Heidelberg in Germany. In 1996 he returned to Stellenbosch University, where he was appointed Chair of the Mathematics Department in 2002 and Executive Head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences in 2006. He has been closely involved with the growth of AIMS since its founding in 2003 and was appointed its second Director in April 2010. He is a member of the Board of the AIMS-Next Einstein Initiative, a bold and innovative plan to build and grow science in Africa, and on the Advisory Board of the planned Pan African Centre for Mathematics in Dar Es Salaam. As a Council Member of the South African Mathematical Society, Editor of the mathematics journal Quaestiones Mathematicae and on the Editorial Board of Afrika Mathematika he has been involved in promoting mathematics in Africa.
Beryl Lieff Benderly
USA
Prize-winning freelance journalist Beryl Lieff Benderly writes the monthly "Taken for Granted" column for the Science magazine website, is a contributing editor of Prism magazine, and contributes articles to other publications including Scientific American, Slate, Miller-McCune, Science Progress and many more. Elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, she is the author or co-author of seven trade books, including the classic DANCING WITHOUT MUSIC: DEAFNESS IN AMERICA, which has marked its thirtieth year in print, and of a novel for middle readers. A winner of the Diane McGurgan Award, and she serves NASW's liaison to the Authors Coalition of America and on the Coalition's distribution committee.
Bora Zivkovic
USA
Bora Zivkovic is the Editor of Scientific American's blog network. Zivkovic is the former Online Community Manager at Public Library of Science. He writes "A Blog Around The Clock," a blend of chronobiology, science, politics and education among other subjects. Born in Serbia, Bora emigrated to the USA in 1991. He received a MS degree in the Department of Zoology at North Carolina State University.
Bothaina Osama Mostafa
Egypt
Bothaina Osama is a science journalist based in Cairo, Egypt. She is a founding member of the Arab Science Journalists Association (ASJA). She has a long career in science journalism, especially on the internet, and was the managing science editor at IslamOnline.net Arabic website for several years. Bothaina is now the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regional coordinator for the London-based SciDev.Net.
Bruce Lewenstein
USA
Bruce Lewenstein worked for only a few years as a science journalist, but parlayed that into teaching science journalism. He's been doing that now for almost 25 years at Cornell University, where he is Professor of Science Communication. He has also taught science journalism on every continent except Antarctica, and has helped set up science communication programs throughout the world.
Catherine Karong'o
Kenya
Catherine Karong'o is a Senior Science and Health radio journalist from Nairobi Kenya. For the last five years, she has worked with 98.4 Capital Fm, a nationwide radio station in Kenya that also has interests in the digital media (www.capitalfm.co.ke). She produces daily radio news items and weekly features on Science and Health.
Catherine has been involved in major world events like the UN Commission on Sustainable Development at the United Nations Headquarters in Newyork, where she was in a team that produced daily podcasts for the event together with the BBC World Service Trust, Stakeholders Forum and the UN radio. She has also covered various health events like the International Aids Conference in Austria.
Catherine has also benefited from several short courses including the Reuters Foundation Course on Reporting Climate Change in Africa. Her professional journalism training includes a diploma in Journalism and she's now pursuing her Bachelor of Science Degree in Communication and Public Relations.
Charles Wendo
Uganda
Dr Charles Wendo, Editor of Saturday Vision, started his career as a veterinary doctor in 1995, before taking to full-time health and science journalism in 1998. He has 14 years' experience in health and science journalism, including four years as a lower-level editor and another four years as a senior editor. He has participated as a trainer in various sessions for journalists on how to report about health and science. He has also been involved in training health and science professionals on working with the media. He has carried out three research projects on media coverage of HIV in Uganda.
Dr. Wendo holds a Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine degree and a post-graduate diploma in journalism and communication. He plans to build a career as a trainer and researcher in the field of health, science and the media. He has specific interest in helping journalists cover health and science better and helping scientists/health professionals make better use of the media.
Chris Mooney
USA
Chris is a science and political journalist and commentator and the author of three books, including the New York Times bestselling The Republican War on Science-dubbed "a landmark in contemporary political reporting" by Salon.com and a "well-researched, closely argued and amply referenced indictment of the right wing's assault on science and scientists" by Scientific American-Storm World, and Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future, co-authored by Sheril Kirshenbaum. They also write "The Intersection" blog together for Discover blogs. In addition, Chris is a host of the Point of Inquiry podcast and was recently seen on BBC 2 guest hosting a segment of "The Culture Show."
Christina Scott
South Africa
Christina Scott produces and presents the weekly hour-long Science Matters programme on SAfm, South Africa's national English-language radio station. It can be heard via audio-streaming from 9 to 10 pm (South African time) every Thursday. It is true that an Australian nearly set her microphone on fire during a physics demonstration and a nematode researcher brought her favourite worm into the studio. Most of her guests are radio virgins and most enjoy their first experience and want to do it again. She also lectures at the University of Cape Town and writes for many leading publications, including the Mail & Guardian newspaper and the Research Africa website.
Christophe Mvondo
Cameroon
Christophe Mvondo is a science journalist in a daily newspaper (La Nouvelle Expression) in Yaounde, Cameroon. He graduated in journalism in 1997, at Institut Samba, a private University in Yaounde.
He participated and graduated in the SjCoop I mentoring programme of the World Federation of science journalists (WFSJ) and he is a board member and chair of the programme committee. He is the chairman of the Cameroon Science for Life (SCILIFE) an Association of science journalists and communicators.
He is now managing a three-months mentoring programme of Science journalists in Cameroon with the support of the CIFOR ( Center for International Forestry Research).
Connie St Louis
UK
Connie St Louis is a senior lecturer and the director of the MA in Science Journalism at City University, London. She is also an award-winning freelance broadcaster, science journalist, writer and scientist. She presents and produces a range of science and health programmes for BBC Radio 4 and BBC World Service. She is a recipient of the prestigious Joseph Rowntree Journalist Fellowship. Her most recent programme on BBC Radio 4 which she produced and presented, investigated the use of racially targeted designer drugs by pharmaceutical companies. She also presented the landmark Radio 4 series 'Life as' which charted the science of life before birth until death. She has written for numerous outlets including the Independent and BBC Online. Before joining the faculty at City University she worked for the BBC for sixteen years and was recruited via the prestigious and highly competitive production trainee scheme. Her production highlights during that time include securing Bill Gates first British interview and being invited to produce the 1997 Reith Lectures.
Cristine Russell
USA
Cristine Russell is an award-winning freelance journalist who has been covering science, health and the environment for more than three decades. She is a senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. She is president of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing (CASW), a U.S. group of journalists and scientists dedicated to improving science news coverage for the general public, and is a past president of the U.S. National Association of Science Writers (NASW). Russell is a Columbia Journalism Review contributing editor on science, a correspondent for TheAtlantic.com, and a former Washington Post national science reporter.
Curtis Brainard
USA
Curtis Brainard has covered science, environment, and medical news for the Columbia Journalism Review since 2006. In January 2008, he launched The Observatory (www.cjr.org/the_observatory), CJR's first fulltime department dedicated to analyzing science coverage in the media as well as the challenges and opportunities facing science journalists today. Brainard has been interviewed and quoted by news outlets such as NPR, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Al-Jazeera English, Greenwire, World Watch Magazine, and the Yale Forum on Climate Change & the Media. In addition, he has been invited to discuss science journalism at meetings of the International Press Institute, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at MIT, and the Environmental Grantmakers Association, among others. Brainard has also written for The New York Times, and before joining CJR, he earned masters degrees in environmental science and journalism at Columbia University.
Dalia Abdel-Salam
Egypt
Dalia is an award-winning journalist based in Cairo, Egypt. Over the past ten years, she wrote more than 200 features on pollution, biodiversity, recycling, and climate change. But her favorite subject has always been water. She is a board member of the Arab Science Journalists Association (ASJA) and an active member in many NGO's and Media networks like the Egyptian Water Partnership, the Arab Office for Youth and Environment and the Water Media Network. She is also working as a media consultant for national, regional and international organizations. Dalia is an environmental reporting trainer. Since 2006, she has been acting as coordinator for Northern Africa for the African Network of Environmental Journalists (ANEJ). From July 2009, Dalia is Co-Directing the 7th World Conference for Science Journalists in Doha with her colleague and Friend Nadia El-Awady.
Dan Fagin
USA
A science journalism professor at New York University, Dan Fagin is a nationally prominent journalist on environmental health topics. He has twice been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and has won both of the best-known science journalism prizes in the United States, from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Association of Science Writers. He is working on his second book, and his recent publications include Scientific American, New Scientist and Harvard University's Nieman Reports.
At NYU, Dan is an associate professor of journalism and the director of the masters-level Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP), one of the oldest and best-regarded science journalism training programs in the world.
Daniel Schaffer
Italy
Daniel Schaffer is the public information officer for TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world, in Trieste, Italy, a UN organization that focuses on science and development in the developing world. He formerly served as communications director for the University of Tennessee's Energy, Environment and Resources Centre and a writer and editor for the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), USA. He has published books with Harvard University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press and World Scientific. He has also served as editor-in-chief of the policy journal Forum, and has produced and scripted awarded-winning educational programmes and documentaries for public television stations in the U.S. He holds a doctorate in history from Rutgers University, USA.
Daniela Ovadia
Italy
DANIELA OVADIA is an award winning science journalist (European Best Cancer Reporter) and professor of science journalism at University of Milan and Padua. She has a background in neuroscience and she is currently involved in research projects at Milan Niguarda Hospital. She has been contributing articles to many italian newspapers and magazines such as L'Espresso, Panorama, Corriere della Sera, Sole 24 Ore and Le Scienze (italian edition of Scientific American). She blogs about neuroscience and neuroethics on Le Scienze website. Daniela Ovadia is actually the scientific director of Agenzia Zoe for Scientific Information, based in Milan. She is a member of the European Association for Neuroscience and Law and sits in the board of the professional association Science Writers in Italy.
David Dickson
UK
David Dickson is the founding director of SciDev.Net (the Science and Development Network). A graduate in mathematics from Cambridge University, he joined the staff of the Times Higher Education Supplement in 1973, and subsequently worked as Washington correspondent for Nature, as European correspondent for Science, and as both news editor and editor of New Scientist. He rejoined Nature as its news editor in 1993, and left to set up SciDev.Net in 2001.
Dickson is the author of Alternative Technology and the Politics of Technical Change (Fontana, London, 1973) and The New Politics of Science (University of Chicago Press, 1986). He has published widely on the relationships between science and society, and is a member of the council of the British Science Association.
In 2006 he was presented with the annual "Award for Meritorious Achievement" by the US-based Council of Scientific Editors. In the same year, he and his team at SciDev.Net received the annual award of the Association of British Science Writers for “the best science writing on the World Wide Web.
David Dobbs
USA
David Dobbs, author of three books, writes on science, culture, and media for publications including the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Nature, the Guardian, Wired, and Scientific American. His most recent book, Reef Madness: Charles Darwin, Alexander Agassiz, and the Meaning of Coral (Pantheon, 2005), examines a pivotal 19th-century argument over the nature of empiricism. He is now writing a book, working title The Orchid and the Dandelion (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), about the notion that the genes underlying some of our most troublesome mental conditions and behaviors also help generate some of our greatest strengths. Originally from the United States, he is currently based in London. More of his work can be found at daviddobbs.net and at his blog, Neuron Culture.
David Ropeik
USA
David Ropeik is an Instructor at Harvard University, author, and consultant on risk perception, risk communication, and risk management. He is author of How Risky Is It, Really? Why Our Fears Don’t Always Match The Facts (2010, McGraw Hill) and co-author of RISK, A Practical Guide for Deciding What’s Really Safe and What’s Really Dangerous in the World Around You, (2002, Houghton Mifflin). He is creator and director of the program “Improving Media Coverage of Risk”, a training program for journalists.
He has written more than 50 articles, book chapters, and other essays, in both the peer-reviewed literature and the general media, on risk perception and risk communication. He writes blogs for Psychology Today and The Huffington Post.
Mr. Ropeik was a television reporter for WCVB-TV in Boston from 1978 - 2000, where he specialized in reporting on environment and science issues. He twice won the DuPont-Columbia Award, (often cited as the television equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize), and seven regional EMMY awards. He wrote a science column for The Boston Globe 1998-2000. He was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT 1994-95, a National Tropical Botanical Garden Fellow in 1999, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Environmental Journalists from 1991-2000. He has taught journalism at Boston University, Tufts University, and MIT.
Debora MacKenzie
Belgium
Debora MacKenzie, who is based in Brussels, has been a regular contributor to the British magazine New Scientist since 1984. In recent years, MacKenzie has specialized in infectious disease, food production, arms control and public attitudes to science. She wrote about "Why Sensible People Reject the Truth," in a May 19, 2010 New Scientist special report on "Living in Denial." MacKenzie is a Canadian who did graduate work in biology in the US and since 1980 has lived in Europe. She was awarded the 2010 American Society for Microbiology Public Communications Award.
Deborah Blum
USA
Deborah Blum is a Pulitzer-prize winning science writer and a professor of journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. She is the author of The Monkey Wars (expanded from her Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper series of the same title); Sex on the Brain, named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Love at Goon Park: Harry Harlow and the Science of Affection, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Ghost Hunters: William James and the Scientific Search for Life After Death, and The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York. Blum is co-editor of A Field Guide for Science Writers (now in its 2nd edition) published by Oxford University Press. Blum is a member at large of the board of the World Federation of Science Journalists and is conference committee chair of the World Conference of Science Journalism 2011.
Deborah Cohen
UK
Deborah Cohen is investigations editor of the British medical journal, BMJ. She trained as a doctor in both the UK and France, before studying journalism and joining the BMJ, as assistant editor. As well as editing other people's investigations, she done her own including the evidence base for Tamiflu, conflicts of interest at the WHO and problems with Avandia. She has also collaborated on projects with the BBC, Channel 4 News and Al-Jazeera.
Dianne Finch
USA
Dianne Finch runs the Knight Science Journalism multimedia program at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 2009 she was hired by KSJ, after spending nine months there as a fellow, to establish a multimedia training program for science journalists. Now, in addition to soaking up science at MIT and Harvard for nine months, fellows may attend sessions in video, audio, web and data visualization.
Dianne began her journalism career a decade ago when the Associated Press hired her to use her computer programming skills to filter large data sets and identify story trends. There, she wrote her first story, using that data, about racial integration in U.S. neighborhoods, which was picked up by newspapers nationwide. Dianne then acquired a master's in journalism from Columbia University with the goal to report fulltime.
Since then she's published and produced stories on science, health and business for several organizations. Most recently she produced science and health stories fulltime for NHPR - and NPR affiliate.
Dianne spent more than 15 years in the computer software industry working initially as a computer programmer/analyst prior to the move to journalism.
Diran Onifade
Nigeria
Diran Onifade covers health and the environment for the Nigerian Television Authority. NTA is the country's only national network. Onifade has reported extensively on the HIV/AIDS crisis. In 1997 he received the Nigerian Media Merit Award for best television reporter of the year.
A Knight Science Journalism Fellow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Leaders-In-Development Fellow of Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, he is President of the African Federation of Science Journalists and former Vice President of the World Federation of Science Journalists, WFSJ. He was the pioneer coordinator of WFSJ's mentoring programme for science journalists in Anglophone Africa.
He holds a degree in mass communication from The Polytechnic and an M.B.A. in human resources management from Lagos State University. His outside interests include badminton and reading.
Dominique Leglu
France
Born in 1955 in Périgueux (France), Dominique Leglu has been the editor in chief of monthly magazine Sciences et Avenir since 2003 [this magazine was founded in 1947 and has a circulation of 280 000 copies, for a 2,5 million readership]. PhD in physics, she worked with daily Liberation (1983-2000) in Paris, launched in 1990 a scientific weekly section called EUREKA, launched a TV program (Archimedes) on franco-german channel Arte and is a former president of the french association of science journalists AJSPI (1994-1995). She is also working with publisher Robert Laffont to publish science books (imported ones : Richard Dawkins, Leonard Susskind, Jonah Lehrer etc. or from french authors). She is regularly invited to radio talks about science (France Inter, France Culture etc.).
She is currently one of the mentors in the SjCOOP program (the francophone group mainly working in west and central Africa).
Ed Yong
UK
Ed Yong is an award-winning British science writer. His blog Not Exactly Rocket Science recently won the National Academies Science Communication Prize in the Online category. His freelance work has appeared in New Scientist, the Times, WIRED, the Guardian, Nature, the Daily Telegraph, the Economist and more.
Ehsan Masood
UK
Ehsan Masood is the Editor of the Research group of publications including Research Fortnight and Research Europe. He teaches international science policy at Imperial College London and is the author of several books, including: 'Science and Islam: a history'. Ehsan lives in London and worked for Nature for many years as a reporter, leader-writer and commissioning editor.
Elsabe Brits
South Africa
Elsabe Brits is a specialist science journalist of 17 years experience at the daily Afrikaans newspaper, Die Burger, in Cape Town, South Africa. She covers most academic research fields and current scientific issues including genetics, astronomy, biology, evolution, paleontology, archeology, physics and medicine. Elsabe has a special interest in the public advancement and understanding of evolution in the public domain. Elsabe has won several national journalism awards during her career. She is regional representative of the South African Science Journalists' Association which is affiliated from the WFSJ.
Elspeth Bartlet
UK
After a decade as an agricultural entomologist, Elspeth was inspired by a BA media fellowship with BBC Rural Affairs to move into science communication. She spent six years managing communications for Rothamsted Research, the largest agricultural research institute in the country. At Rothamsted her duties included media relations around contentious areas, such as the Farm Scale Trials of GM crops. She is now managing communications for a Bill and Melinda Gates-funded project at the University of York aimed at improving access to malaria drugs through the development of an improved medicinal herb.
Eric Racine
Canada
ERIC RACINE is the Director of the Neuroethics Research Unit at the IRCM (Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal) and holds appointments at the University of Montreal (Medicine and Bioethics) and McGill University (Neurology/Neurosurgery and Biomedical Ethics). He leads several projects examining ethical and social issues in research and healthcare sparked by rapid advances in neuroscience and neurotechnology. His research interests include the public understanding of neuroscience and neurological conditions. His book, Pragmatic Neuroethics published at MIT Press, captures his work and views on a number of current topics. Dr. Racine is also an associate editor of the journal Neuroethics.
Erin Kapp
USA
Erin is a graduate student in journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studies science communication in the professional track MA program. She completed her BA in physics and English literature at Wittenberg University in 2009. She is also the program manager for WCSJ-2011.
Esther Nakkazi
Uganda
Esther Nakkazi is a freelance science reporter, researcher and trainer. She writes science articles for the regional The EastAfrican newspaper, www.theeastafrican.co.ke and is a regular contributor of HIV/AIDS news and analysis to Plus News www.plusnews.org as well as other publications around the globe.
Esther is a mentor in the peer-to-peer mentoring science writers' forum World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ) www.wfsj.org after having benefited as a mentee from the same programme. She is also a member of the Uganda Science Journalists Association (USJA).
She is a Knight Science Journalism fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) 2007/08. Follow her on Twitter @Nakkazi and blog: www.estanakkazi.blogspot.com.
Estrella Burgos
Mexico
Estrella Burgos is a science writer, editor, journalism teacher, and lecturer based in Mexico City. She is the former president of the Mexican Association of Science and Technology Communication. Since 1998, she has served as editor-in-chief of ¿Cómo ves? (www.comoves.unam.mx), the nation's leading monthly science magazine for adolescents and young adults, and co-hosts the weekly science radio show, "Have Coffee with Us." Ms. Burgos has authored four books for young readers, and is co-author of another four books as well as seven elementary and high school science textbooks. She has freelanced for several magazines and newspapers, and is a member of the U.S. National Association of Science Writers (NASW).
Eugenie Scott
USA
Dr. Eugenie C. Scott is Executive Director of the National Center for Science Education, Inc., a not for profit membership organization of scientists, teachers, and others that works to improve the teaching of evolution, and of science as a way of knowing. It opposes the teaching of "scientific" creationism and other religiously-based views in science classes. A former college professor, Dr. Scott is an internationally-known expert on the creationism and evolution controversy, and is called upon by the press and other media to explain science and evolution to the general public. The author of Evolution vs Creationism: An Introduction and co-editor with Glenn Branch of Not in Our Classrooms: Why Intelligent Design is Wrong for our Schools, she is the recipient of numerous awards from scientists and educators, and has been awarded eight honorary degrees.
Ezzeddine Abdelmoula
Qatar
Ezzeddine Abdelmoula, researcher and head of publishing at the Al Jazeera Center for Studies since 2008.
Obtained MA in political philosophy from the University of La Sorbonne, France. Holder of MSc in international politics from SOAS, London University and MPhil in politics from Exeter University. Currently undertaking a PhD research in politics and International Relations at Exeter University.
Editor of "The Al Jazeera Decade" book, published in 2006. Recently translated "The Al Jazeera Effect", published in 2011.
Ezzeddine writes analyses and opinion articles in Arab newspapers and magazines including the London based Al-Hayat and Al-Quds Al-Arabi.
Fabio Turone
Italy
Fabio Turone has been a science journalist for more than 20 years, covering mostly health issues. He founded in 2001 the Agency Zoe of scientific and medical information based in Milan, which he currently directs. He has contributed articles to many Italian media - mostly on medicine and health, but also about the Internet and electronic publishing - and to several English-language outlets (he is news correspondent for Italy for the BMJ).
Since 2010 he is the President of the professional association Science Writers in Milan, Italy (SWIM-SWITY) that he contributed to launch.
Fatiha Chara
Algeria
Fatiha is producing specialized programs in Algerian radio since 1999. She is acting as a freelancer with "Albiaa wa Altanmia" magazine, which is Lebanon magazine interested in Environment and Development, & freelancer in the Canadian Agency for the French news since 2009. She is a board member in the Arab association of Science Journalists.
Fiona Fox
UK
Fiona Fox has a degree in journalism and 24 years of experience in working in media relations for high profile national organisations. Her career includes stints working for the Equal Opportunities Committee, National Council for One Parent Families, and CAFOD (a leading aid agency). Despite having no background in science, Fiona managed to persuade a distinguished panel of eminent scientists to take a risk and appoint her to become the founding Director of the Science Media Centre which opened in April 2002. The main remit of the Centre, which has earned extensive praise, is to help restore public trust in science by persuading more scientists to engage more effectively with the big controversial science stories that hit the headlines. Other than her dedication to the SMC, Fiona was chair of the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills Working Group that published a report on the future of science in the media in January 2010 as part of the UK's Science and Society strategy. She also blogs and comments regularly on science in the media.
Frank Nuijens
The Netherlands
Frank Nuijens is editor-in-chief of Delta newspaper and Delft Integraal/Outlook science magazine, both published by Delft University of Technology. He is a science journalist in the Netherlands who has worked for print, internet, radio and mainly television. His television work ranged from children's science shows to science news programmes and science documentaries on Dutch public television. He wrote a chapter on biometrics for the popular life science book In the Future Everything Will Be Fantastic (2006). Currently, he is also a guest lecturer of science journalism at Delft University of Technology and the editor of the Science Journalism Blog of the World Federation of Science Journalists.
George Zarkadakis
Greece
George Zarkadakis is the External Relations Officer of the European Bioinformatics Institute at Hinxton, UK; as well as a novelist, a playwright, a science journalist and an expert in science policy. Trained as a systems engineer he earned his PhD in Artificial Intelligence from City University, London, and began his career as an IT consultant. He switched gears ten years ago and launched the popular science magazine Focus in Greece, making it one of the most successful titles ever in the country. He has appeared in numerous television programs in Greece and elsewhere, including two History Channel series. In 2005 and 2006 he wrote and co-presented "Eureka!" a very successful weekly TV series that popularized science in a very amusing way; a new season is currently prepared for 2011. He has designed, delivered and facilitated many events for public engagement in science, writes a blog on science and literature (www.felinequanta.com), contributes regularly to newspapers and magazines, and has been a partner of the British Council in Famelab and Famelab International. In 2007 he launched a popular science book imprint (Avgo Books). He has written five novels, one poetry collection, one short story collection, several plays and a popular science book on the scientific study of human consciousness. His website is www.zarkadakis.com
Gianna Milano
Italy
Full time science reporter (1981-1995) and, subsequently, chief editor for science and medicine at Panorama, one of the leading newsmagazines in Italy, since 2009 she is freelance and regularly contributing to Panorama and La Stampa, one the main Italian dailies. Graduated from the Bocconi University in Milan, she attended (1992-93) the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships at MIT, in Boston (USA). Since 2000 she teaches science journalism at the Master in science communication at the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA) in Trieste, Italy, and since 2001 she has organized with the University of Pavia an intensive course in science journalism. In 2005, as a visiting scholar, she spent a year at the Department of History of Science at Harvard University, in Usa, focusing her research on bioethics. She is author of books: Blood and Aids, Chronicle p fan Italian Scandal, Il Pensiero Scientifico Editore, 1995; Bioehtics, from A to Z, Feltrinelli 1997; When a child cannot read, Rizzoli 2000; The stem cell revolution (coauthor Chiara Palmerini), Feltrinelli, 2005; Diary of an opportune death (coauthor Mario Riccio), Sironi, 2008.
Ginger Pinholster
USA
Ms. Pinholster oversees media relations for the nonprofit AAAS and its journals Science, Science Translational Medicine, and Science Signaling. Her office also runs EurekAlert!, the popular science-news Web service for some 7,400 registered reporters, and the AAAS Annual Meeting. Before joining AAAS, Pinholster was the National Media Relations Coordinator at the University of Delaware. Earlier, she served as Deputy Media Relations Manager for the National Academy of Sciences and Media Relations Specialist for the Georgia Tech Research Institute, after working as a newspaper reporter. She's currently working toward an M.F.A. degree from Queens University at Charlotte.
Grigory Pasko
Russia
Grigory Pasko is a Russian war journalist, he lives in Moscow. He graduated from the journalism department of Lvov University in 1983 and worked as an investigative journalist and editor for “Boyevaya Vakhta” (Battle Watch), the in-house newspaper of the Russian Pacific Fleet. He worked together with Japanese journalists from the NHK TV network and the newspaper Asahi Shimbun that specializes in environmental issues. He had disclosed the dumping of nuclear waste by the Russian Navy’s in the Sea of Japan in 1993.
In 1997 Pasko was arrested by FSB agents in Vladivostok. He was accused of espionage for publications on the environmental problems in the Japanese sea. The Court of the Pacific Fleet convicted Pasko to four years of imprisonment for treason in 2001. He was released from detention in 2003.
He received human rights award from Reporters without borders in 2002. In 2009 Grigory launched the first blogger school in Russia.
Gustavo Faleiros
Brazil
Gustavo Faleiros was born in São Paulo, Brazil. He currently works as editor in chief for O Eco online, a Brazilian environmental news agency that covers environmental policy and conservation issues. He previously worked as the environment correspondent for Valor Econômico, a major financial newspaper in Brazil, where he won the World Bank's prize for stories on water supply and sanitation. In addition, he was an assistant-consultant at Patri Public Policies, a consultancy that works with private companies. Faleiros graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Journalism from the Catholic University of São Paulo and completed a Masters Degree in Environment, Politics and Globalization at the King's College, University of London. His thesis on biofuels production in the countryside of Brazil was quoted by the U.K.'s Sustainable Development Commission in its report on renewable fuels in 2005 and led to Faleiros' first book, The Brazil of Ethanol and Biodiesel.
Guy Jobbins
Egypt
Guy Jobbins works in IDRC's Cairo office, developing research projects on climate change adaptation in North Africa. Much of this work is focused on dealing with rising sea levels, increased water scarcity, and the impacts of climate change on human health.
Before joining IDRC in 2006, Jobbins worked on projects related to sustainable development and natural resource management in Egypt -- including research on coral reefs, community-based fisheries, protected areas, and integrated coastal zone management, which is a holistic approach for the sustainability of coastal areas.
Jobbins holds a PhD in public policy from the University of Birmingham and an MSc in ecosystem analysis and governance from the University of Warwick, both in England. He also studied at the School of Marine Affairs at the University of Washington and did post-doctoral work with the department of mathematics at University College London.
Hajime Hiniko
Japan
In 1976, after graduated from the University of Tokyo, I took a job with Komatsu. I worked for Komatsu for about 10 years where, I designed heavy-duty diesel engines for bulldozers and power shovels. During my time with Komatsu I was fortunate enough to be sent to France for one and a half years to study French language and culture.
At the age of 32, I suddenly went from being an engineer to a science reporter for the Tokyo Shimbun and Chunichi Shimbun. These newspapers have a daily readership of around 3.5 million people. I am perhaps the only newspaper journalist in Japan who also has 10 years experience as an engineer.
In 2004, I became science news editor for the Chunichi. I am now senior writer. I am also the secretary-general of the Japanese Association of Science and Technology Journalists (JASTJ).
Hans van Maanen
The Netherlands
Hans van Maanen is a veteran science journalist based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In 1981, after finishing his sociology studies, he started as a reporter for Haarlems Dagblad. In 1998, he became science editor for the Amsterdam newspaper Het Parool.
Since 2003 he is freelance, writing for newspapers and magazines. He has a weekly column on 'dubious science' in the newspaper de Volkskrant.
Van Maanen wrote some twenty books, mostly on science and medicine, but also on games, popular misconceptions and statistics.
In 2007, he was awarded both the ‘Van Walree Prize’ for medical writing by the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the ‘Eureka Prize’ for science writing by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
He teaches science writing and ‘quantitative journalism’ at several Dutch universities.
Hassana Rachid
Lebanon
I did my bachelor degree at the Lebanese university, and I earned the masters degree and PHD in mass communication studies from the university of Bordeaux III in France.
I have held a number roles, I was designed as a director of the faculty of communication from 1991 to 1995, after that I worked as a communication and information consultant for the Lebanese university presdent, also I used to work as consultant for the communication and orientation department of the ministry of defense, without forgetting that I was a host of a talk show for 2 years.
My research studies included media ethics, education and communication, media effects, the freedom of expression, public relations strategy and methods and charisma and leadership etc.
I participated in many seminars, conferences and workshops in Europe, arab world and Lebanon for communication skills, media ethics, environment and media, low and media, woman and freedom of expression and public relations skills.
As a profession status, I teach the following courses: mass communication theories, media effects, communication skills, publicity production and specialized journalism (environment).
Helen Branswell
Canada
Helen Branswell is the medical reporter for The Canadian Press, Canada's news agency. In her 30 years as a journalist, she has covered a range of beats in bureaus across Canada and in Europe, assuming the medical reporting job in 2000. Based in Toronto, she covered that city's SARS outbreak in 2003. From early 2004 onward she covered closely the re-emergence of the dangerous H5N1 avian influenza virus and the efforts it triggered around the world to prepare for an influenza pandemic. She received a 2004 Knight Public Health Journalism Fellowship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, where she spent three months working with scientists in the hospital infections and influenza branches. She is currently a Nieman Global Health Reporting Fellow at Harvard University, where she is focusing on disease eradication.
Helena Raunio
Finland
The Finnish journalist Helena Raunio has more than 30 years working experience from various newspapers and magazines in Finland as a business journalist, and also as a science and technology journalist.
Helena has studied economics and communication sciences at the University of Tampere. She has a degree in economics.
At the technology and business magazine Tekniikka ja Talous she has worked in many positions as news editor, producer and reporter.
Currently she is working as a science journalist, but also as reporter and environmental journalist for the magazine. That is why she also has written about the Nord Stream gas pipeline.
Helena lives and works in the city of Helsinki. She is a member of several journalist organisations. Her hobbies are her family and her dog.
Henry Fountain
USA
Mr. Fountain, editor of the biology-focused "Observatory" column, also brought extensive knowledge of physical processes to his coverage of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. In particular, for example, he worked to help readers understand the limits of existing technologies as well as the potential impacts of extreme weather events. Mr. Fountain specializes in covering engineering, materials and "other subjects at the intersection of science and everyday life."
Hepeng Jia
China
A pioneer science journalist, JIA Hepeng is the founder and editor-in-chief of Science News Bi-weekly, China's first magazine targetting science community.
Since June 2005, he has been working as SciDev.Net's regional coordinator for China and is responsible for the Chinese version China Gateway of SciDev.Net. He also writes for the Science magazine and UK magazine Chemistry World.
In November 2006, Jia became the regional co-winner of Reuters-IUCN world awards of the environmental reporting. In April 2007, Jia was elected as the executive board member of the World Federation of Science Journalists at the fifth World Conference of Science Journalists in Melbourne and he was re-elected to the position in July 2009. He is also an active member of the Chinese Society of Science and Technology Journalism (CSSTJ) and the founding director of China Science Reporting Network.
Jia has been reporting climate change since early 2000s and organised dozens of climate change communication activities since 2006. He is the editor and chief author of the book How to Report Climate Change (British Council 2008). Under his guide, Science News Bi-weekly has launched China's first and only regular climate change section.
He is the author of the book Science Communication in An Era of Globalisation (China Popular Science Press 007).
Holly Tucker
USA
Holly Tucker, Ph.D., teaches at Vanderbilt University, where she holds appointments in the Center for Medicine, Health & Society and the Department of French & Italian. Her writing has appeared in the New Scientist, the Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Journal, among others. She is author Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine & Murder in the Scientific Revolution (Norton, March 2011), and edits the general history website Wonders & Marvels.
Homayoun Kheyri
Australia/Iran
Dr Homayoun (Hamy) Kheyri is a scientist and a science/environmental journalist. He has completed a BSc in Zoology, a MSc in Environmental Engineering, a PhD in Science Communication and a PhD in Neuroscience. In an 19 year media career he has made 11 environmental documentary films from around the world, hosted weekly live radio and TV science shows for Iranian national radio & TV for 5 years, and published more than 500 articles on science and environmental issues. He received 4 international and 3 national awards including UN Fresh Water prize for his film on water crisis, Johannesburg, South Africa; UNESCO prize for the role of science media in developing countries, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2008 he received Deuche Welle award for blogging science. He is currently living in Australia and freelancing for BBC World Service (Persian) on science and environmental stories as well as doing his research at the University of Queensland and Queensland Brain Institute.
Howard Hudson
The Netherlands
Born in London in 1976, Howard Hudson has worked in five European countries. Beyond writing for magazines in Belgium and Italy, he has drafted 100 reports for the European Social Fund, brochures for several EU summits, and a Corporate Social Responsibility report for Air France-KLM.
In 2009-10, he worked as editor and project manager at the European Journalism Centre, specializing in media ethics and science journalism. Howard now works for UNU-MERIT, a Maastricht-based UN research agency, focusing on national and international governance of science, technology and innovation, with an emphasis on the creation, diffusion and access to knowledge.
Hujun Li
China
Hujun Li is a senior editor and the chief of the environment and science desk at Caixin Media in Beijing, China. Li writes column articles for several publications, including China Dialogue, a bilingual environment website. He is also a co-founder of China's Climate Change Journalists Club, a public welfare network composed of Chinese journalists and climate related professionals.
Since 1998, Li has worked as an environment and science journalist at Science Times, a daily newspaper owned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Southern Weekly, the most popular weekly newspaper in China; and Caijing Magazine, one of leading voices for business and financial issues in China. He is a co-author of the Chinese guidelines for climate change coverage, “Reporting Climate Change,” produced with the support of the British Council in 2008. And he is also a co-editor of a bilingual report, “The Warming Tibet,” produced with the support of Heinrich Böll Stiftung in 2009.
Imad Musa
Qatar
Imad Musa is the Planning Manager for the Programmes Department of AlJazeera English. In that role, he evaluates submissions from inside and outside the AlJazeera network for new documentaries and talk shows. Before that, he was the producer of the Riz Khan show on AlJazeera English in Washington, DC. He holds a Master's degree in Journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia.
Imelda Abano
The Philippines
Imelda V. Abano has been a science and environmental journalist for 12 years. She is the first Philippine journalist to receive the 2009 Developing Asia Journalist of the Year Award organized by the Asia Development Bank Institute in Tokyo, Japan for her climate change reporting. She was a United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) media fellow in 2007, covering the series of international climate change negotiations. With her passion for science and environmental reporting, she spearheaded the creation of the Philippine Network of Environmental Journalists, Inc in 2010 and was elected as its President. She is a senior member of the U.S.-based Internews' Earth Journalism Network.
Isabelle Bourgeault-Tasse
Canada
Isabelle Bourgeault-Tassé is Senior Media Advisor at Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC). She has been telling IDRC success stories for over five years, working with researchers who have been transforming policy and practice in the developing world. Prior to joining IDRC, Bourgeault-Tassé worked as a political advisor at the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) and as a communications advisor in the Office of the Prime Minister of Canada. She has volunteered with UNIFEM Canada; the Lucille Teasdale and Piero Corti Foundation, which supports the daily activities of St. Mary's Hospital Lacor in northern Uganda; and the Ali Iman Sharmarke Peace Foundation, an organization that supports the work of embattled Somali journalists.
Istvan Palugyai
Hungary
Istvan Palugyai, a biologist turned journalist, is senior science editor at Nepszabadsag, the major daily newspaper in Budapest, Hungary, where, since 1991, he has been responsible for daily science and technology coverage, including medical and environmental news, and for a weekly IT column. Previously he worked for another Hungarian newspaper, Magyar Hirlap, and as an editor, producer, and presenter of popular science programs on Hungarian television. He was the chief organizer of the Second World Conference of Science Journalists held in Budapest in 1999 and, subsequently, served as a founding Vice President of the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ), which was formally proposed at that conference. He has served as president of the Club of Hungarian Science Journalists (CHSJ) and, from 2004-2008, as president of the European Union of Science Journalists Associations ( EUSJA). A member of the Governing Board of Euroscience, he has been a lecturer on science journalism at Lorand Eotvos University and a member of the Ethics Committee of the Federation of Hungarian Journalists.
István Vágó
Hungary
István Vágó graduated as a chemical engineer from Technical University in Budapest in 1972, and worked at a pharmaceutical factory and foreign trade company before joining Hungarian Television as a host for various scientific, information, and entertainment programs in 1975. In 1997 he was a founding member of the first Hungarian commercial television station, TV2, and continued as a host for "Jeopardy" and editor-in-chief of "Wheel of Fortune" on TV2. After some time at the RTL Klub station hosting "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," Vágó was a founding member of the Hungarian Skeptic Society, serving as president from 2008-2009. As of 2009 he has rejoined TV2.
Ivan Oransky
USA
Ivan Oransky, MD, is executive editor of Reuters Health. Previously, he was managing editor, online, at Scientific American, deputy editor of The Scientist and founding editor in chief of Praxis Post. Oransky is co-author of The Common Symptom Answer Guide (McGraw-Hill, 2004), and has written for publications including the Boston Globe, The New Republic, and Slate. He received his BA at Harvard and his MD from New York University, and completed an internship at Yale. During medical school, he was co-editor-in-chief of the student section of JAMA. He has served on the board of directors of the Association of Health Care Journalists since 2002, and as AHCJ treasurer since 2009. Ivan has taught medical reporting in at NYU's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program since 2002, and also holds an appointment at NYU Medical School as Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine. He has also taught at the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism.
Jaideep Hardikar
India
Jaideep Hardikar has been a journalist for 14 years and is currently the Nagpur-based Special Correspondent for Daily News and Analysis, an English-labguage newspaper covering central India. For the past 10 years he has focused on India's agrarian crisis, including farmer suicides, food politics, agricultural technology import-export policies, and access to water. He is the recipient of several media fellowships and in 2009 was an Alfred Friendly Press Foundation fellow assigned to the South Florida Sun Sentinel, US agriculture, subsidy structures and trends. He is a contributing writer for The New Internationalist and Indiatogether portal, and is the author of a forthcoming book on displacement.
James Cornell
USA
James Cornell is President of the International Science Writers Association (ISWA), which promotes science journalism worldwide. For many years he was Publications Director for the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, responsible for all technical and popular information. The author or editor of more than a dozen popular science books, he now publishes an on-line newsletter and serves as a consultant to various foundations.
James Fahn
USA
James Fahn is the Executive Director of Internews' Earth Journalism Network, which aims to improve the quantity and quality of environmental coverage. Fahn is a journalist who has primarily focused on environmental issues in developing countries. For nine years during the 1990s, Fahn was based in Thailand where he was a reporter and editor for The Nation, an English-language daily newspaper based in Bangkok, and hosted a television show. His book "A Land on Fire" recounts the issues and scandals he uncovered while working on the environmental beat in Southeast Asia. Fahn has also written for the New York Times, Newsweek, The Economist, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Jakarta Post, SciDev.net, Nature.com, the Huffington Post and currently writes a column for the Columbia Journalism Review. Fahn received UNEP's Global 500 Award for The Nation's environmental reporting, and was pinned by Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn for his service to Thailand.
James Gillies
France
James Gillies is head of communication at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. He holds a doctorate in physics from the University of Oxford, and began his research career working at CERN in the mid-1980s. In 1993, he left research to become Head of Science with the British Council in Paris. After managing the Council's bilateral programme of scientific visits, exchanges, bursaries and cultural events for two years, he returned to CERN in 1995 as a science writer. He has been Head of the Organization's communication group since 2003, and is co-author of 'How the Web was Born', a history of the Internet published in 2000 and described by the London Times as being among the year's ten best books for inquisitive minds.
Janne Hukkinen
Finland
Janne Hukkinen is professor of environmental policy at the University of Helsinki. He has a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and a MSc from Helsinki University of Technology. Janne studies the cognitive aspects of sustainability assessment and strategy, with empirical applications in participation and expertise in environmental and technology policy.
He is Expert Counsellor on the Environment for the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland, member of the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme Environment and Climate Scientific Advisory Group and board member of the European Society for Ecological Economics.
Janne is the winner of the Harold D. Lasswell award for the best article in Policy Sciences in 1990 and author of Sustainability Networks (2008) and Institutions in Environmental Management (1999), both published by Routledge.
Javaid Sheikh
Qatar
Javaid Sheikh, M.D., an internationally known psychiatrist and researcher of anxiety, stress, aging, and related cognitive disorders, was educated at King Edward Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan; did clinical and research training at the University of Connecticut and Stanford University, in the United States; and for many years did psychiatric research in the U.S., primarily at Stanford University Medical School. In 2007, he moved from Stanford to the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (founded 2001), which offers a six-year program culminating in the same M.D. awarded to graduates at Weill Cornell in New York, and where as dean of research he leads the university's efforts to expand their translational and clinical research.
Jaya Banerji
Switzerland
Jaya is responsible for all of MMV's communications, internal and external, as well as advocacy for malaria drug R&D. This includes all MMV publications including the Annual Report, issue briefs e.g., on quality and artemisinin resistance, the production of short films, MMV's relations with the media, and its presence in social media.
An alumnus of Delhi University and the Delhi School of Economics, Jaya has two decades of communications experience in writing, editing, scripting, publishing, and advocacy. Her expertise was garnered from both the not-for-profit and commercial sectors, in organisations as varied as Oxford University Press, Kali for Women, McKinsey & Company, and Médecins Sans Frontières.
Jean-Marc Fleury
Canada
Jean-Marc Fleury is the Executive Director of the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ) and director of WFSJ's flagship SjCOOP project, the largest training project in science journalism with a $4.3 M budget. In 2007, he became the Bell Globemedia Chair in Science Journalism at Laval University, in Québec City.
Fleury graduated in Physics Engineering from Laval University. He became the first science reporter for the daily Le Soleil, in Québec City, in 1969, and editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine Québec Science, (still) the only magazine dedicated to the popularization of science in Canada.
In 1976, he joined the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), in Ottawa and eventually became its Director of Communications. He worked 5 years in IDRC's regional office in Dakar (Senegal) where he taught science journalism at the University of Dakar and organized science journalism training workshops across Central and West Africa.
The Québec Association of Science Communicators awarded him its 2007 Recognition Prize, given every 5 years, to recognize his overall contribution to the development of science journalism.
Jennifer Bogo
USA
Jennifer Bogo is the science editor at Popular Mechanics, where she orchestrates coverage on topics ranging from medical breakthroughs and space exploration to advances in alternative energy and robotics. Her 3-part "Know Your Footprint" package on reducing household energy, water and waste won a National Magazine Award in 2008. She also reports stories from the field. In 2010, "The Highest Dive" sent her to Saskatchewan and L.A. to chronicle dueling efforts to break the record for the world's highest sky dive. For "Digital Sight for the Blind," she spent a year observing how an artificial retina changed the life of a woman with retinitis pigmentosa. In 2010, she also produced Popular Mechanics annual Breakthrough Awards for game-changing advances in science and technology, working closely with PM's in-house iPad staff to make the print content interactive for the magazine's first monthly app.
Jennifer Ouellette
USA
Jennifer Ouellette is a recovering English major who stumbled into science writing and has been avidly exploring her inner geek ever since. Now based in Los Angeles, California, she is the author of three popular science books for the general public: The Calculus Diaries: How Math Can Help You Lose Weight, Win in Vegas, and Survive a Zombie Apocalypse (August 31, 2010), The Physics of the Buffyverse (2007), and Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales from the Annals of Physics (2006). Jennifer's work has appeared in the Washington Post, Discover, Salon, Nature, Physics Today, Symmetry, Physics World, and New Scientist, among other venues. She maintains a general science-and-culture blog called Cocktail Party Physics, and also blogs about physics and space science for Discovery News. From November 2008 to October 2010, Jennifer was director of the Science & Entertainment Exchange, a Los Angeles-based initiative of the National Academy of Sciences aimed at fostering creative collaborations between scientists and entertainment industry professionals. Jennifer is married to Caltech physicist (and fellow author/blogger) Sean (M.) Carroll.
Jo Marchant
UK
Jo Marchant is a journalist specialising in science and history. Her writing has appeared in publications including New Scientist, Nature, The Guardian and The Economist. She has a PhD in genetics and an MSc in science communication, and has previously worked as an editor at New Scientist and at Nature. She is author of Decoding the Heavens, a book about the Antikythera mechanism, which tells the story of the 100-year quest to understand this ancient computer. Decoding the Heavens was described by the LA Times as "an epic of forgotten geniuses, lost treasure, death-defying underwater exploration and egomaniacal scientists" and was shortlisted for the 2009 Royal Society Prize for Science Books, one of the UK's most prestigious non-fiction literary prizes. She blogs about ancient gadgets, underwater finds, strange creatures, mummies and anything else that interests her at www.decodingtheheavens.com/blog. She is based in London.
Joe Palca
USA
Joe Palca is a science correspondent for NPR. He began his journalism career in television in 1982, working as a health producer for the CBS affiliate in Washington, DC. In 1986, he left television for a seven-year stint as a print journalist, first as the Washington news editor for Nature, and then as a senior correspondent for Science Magazine. Palca has won numerous awards, including the National Academies Communications Award, the American Association for the Advancement of Science Journalism Prize, and the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Writing. With Flora Lichtman, Palca is the co-author of Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us (Wiley, 2011). He comes to journalism from a science background, having received a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of California at Santa Cruz where he worked on human sleep physiology. Palca lives in Washington, D.C, with his wife and two sons.
John Bohannon
USA
John Bohannon is a contributing correspondent for Science magazine. He completed a Ph.D. in molecular biology from the University of Oxford, studied bioethics in Berlin as a Fulbright scholar, and is currently a visiting researcher at Harvard University. His reporting from the Gaza Strip won the Reuters-IUCN Media Award for Excellence in Environmental Reporting from Europe. He is coauthor with Isabella Rosselini of "Green Porno" (winner of 4 Webby awards) and "Animals Distract Me" (official selection, 2011 Sundance Film Festival). His study of people's inability to distinguish pet food from paté caused Stephen Colbert to eat cat food on television.
Jon Cohen
USA
A correspondent with Science since 1990, Jon Cohen also has written for the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, Outside, Slate, Technology Review, and many other publications. His books include Shots in the Dark (W.W. Norton, 2001), Coming to Term (Houghton Mifflin, 2005), and Almost Chimpanzee (Holt/Times Books, 2010).
Cohen has done mini-documentaries for Science and SlateV, and contributed to “Ending AIDS,” a PBS documentary based on Shots in the Dark. He also edits Wave Lines, a magazine about surfing designed for tablets and smartphones. Awards include “Excellence in Media”/Global Health Council, 2009 (“Follow the Money,” Science); “Science in Society”/National Association of Science Writers, 2002 (Shots in the Dark), and “International Health Reporting”/Pan American Health Organization, 1998 (“Rise and Fall of Projet SIDA,” Science).
He earned a B.A. in science writing from the University of California, San Diego (1981), and lives in Cardiff-by-the-Sea, California.
Joseph Warungu
Kenya
Joseph Warungu is a specialist on African media and culture based in Nairobi, Kenya where he now works as a consultant and media trainer after a 20 year career at the BBC World Service in London. Until April 2011, Warungu was the Head of the BBC African News & Current Affairs Service responsible for flagship daily news programmes for Africa and overseeing a team of over 60 reporters around Africa as well as production staff in London. He was also Editor-in-Chief of the BBC Focus on Africa magazine which is published quarterly and distributed in Europe, Africa and north America. It covers politics, health, business and culture. Warungu is widely travelled in Africa as a journalist and media trainer. While in UK he has been a reporter and presenter on many programmes on BBC radio and TV as well as a Television series for the commercial Channel 4 station called Africa Express. He also chaired many panel discussions on wide ranging topics including Climate Change and Bio-fuels. Prior to his broadcasting career, Warungu taught English and Kiswahili in Kenya.
Joydeep Gupta
India
A Director of the Third Pole Project run jointly by the Internews Earth Journalism Network and China Dialogue, Joydeep Gupta has been writing on environmental issues since covering the Bhopal gas leak disaster in 1984, and now also trains environmental journalists. He writes, commissions and edits articles for the bilingual environmental news website China Dialogue. He has been lead trainer at workshops for environmental journalists from South Asia and South-East Asia in India, Pakistan, Nepal and Philippines. He has a Masters degree in Environmental Economics and Environmental Management from the University of York (UK).
Gupta has covered the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, climate summits in Bali, Poznan and Copenhagen, and the biodiversity summit in Nagoya. He has been in India's Project Tiger governing council and was a co-author of its National Biodiversity Action Plan. He is the Secretary of the Forum of Environmental Journalists in India.Juhie Bhatia
USA
Juhie Bhatia is the Managing Editor of Women's eNews and the Public Health Editor of Global Voices Online. She has covered health, science and women's issues for 10 years as a reporter and editor. In 2009, she wrote a series on global food security issues in collaboration with Global Voices Online and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Previously, she helped launch EverydayHealth.com, one of the leading health Web sites in the U.S., was a nutrition consultant for the Center for Science in the Public Interest's Nutrition Action Healthletter, and has written for Reuters Health, Planned Parenthood's teenwire.com, Bust magazine, HealthDay, Bulletin for the World Health Organization, MSNBC.com, iVillage and Natural Health magazine, among others. She's a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in New York City and has a bachelor's degree in nutritional sciences from the University of Guelph, Canada.
Julia Wilson
UK
Julia is Communications Officer and VoYS Coordinator for the UK Charity Sense About Science. Her work involves running a programme of Standing up for Science and Peer Review workshops and coordinating myth-busting and evidence-hunting projects with the Voice of Young Science network of early career researchers. Julia has a degree in Biology from the University of Manchester and joined Sense About Science as an intern in November 2008. Julia writes a weekly blog, frequently chairs discussions at workshops for early career researchers and is responsible for Sense About Science events.
Justa Wawira
Kenya
Justa Wawira has over 20 years experience as a communications professional in Kenya. She is currently Head of External Relations for the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme. She has trained science journalists in partnership with PATH Malaria Vaccine Initiative and Internews. She holds a Bachelor of Education degree and is currently finalising her MSc degree in Public Relations with the University of Stirling. She previously worked in the corporate world as a Public Relations Manager before joining non-governmental organisations.
Justin Arenstein
South Africa
Arenstein is a start-up junky. Beginning as an anti-corruption investigative journalist in South Africa, he launched the nation's first rural social justice wire-service, African Eye News Service (AENS), before helping pioneer the region's first rural lifestyle magazine publisher (HomeGrown Magazines) and Mpumalanga's first commercial radio station (MPowerFM).
Arenstein was also instrumental in establishing three major media non-profit organisations: the continental Forum for African Investigative Reporters (FAIR), the southern African Association of Independent Publishers (AIP), and the Southern African Freelance Association (SAFREA).
Arenstein has just returned from a year sabbatical as a Knight Fellow at Stanford University, in the Silicon Valley. Now back in Africa, Arenstein serves on various media industry boards and think-tanks. He is also currently a consultant for Google Africa and the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) in Washington DC.
Outside of his Google and ICFJ work, Arenstein advises the African Media Initiative (AMI) and Institute for the Advancement of Journalism (IAJ) on digital strategies, and spearheads the Open Society Foundation's first Gov 2.0 civic engagement project in southern Africa: myMPUMALANGA.
Kaianders Sempler
Sweden
Kaianders Sempler is a science journalist from Sweden. He has for the last fifteen years been editor and illustrator for the Swedish technology news magazine Ny Teknik. He has a background in architecture, mathematics and oceanography. Nowadays he mostly writes about the history of science and technology, mathematics and space.
Karina Nazaretyan
Russia
Karina Nazaretyan is a science editor at Akzia Newspaper - free national biweekly publication for young people (aged 18-30) in Russia. She is also a freelance science reporter for several other media outlets ("Troitsky Variant", SRTF.ru, Snob.ru) and a postgraduate student at the Institute of Philosophy (Russian Academy of Sciences).
Kate Arkless Gray
UK
Kate Arkless Gray studied Genetics at Cambridge University, but was drawn away from a lab career when she became Station Manager of the student radio station there. Her love of radio won out and she spent the next few years as a radio producer at a commercial London talk station and then at BBC Radio 2, 5 live and at the BBC Science Radio Unit. Kate managed the BBC World Service's award-winning 'Save Our Sounds' initiative, creating an audio map of the world and introducing people to the concept of 'Acoustic Ecology'. She is currently mixing her desire to be the first woman on the moon, with some freelance science reporting for Science in Action on the BBC World Service.
Kathryn O'Hara
Canada
Kathryn O'Hara is a broadcast journalist and journalism educator. She holds the CTV Chair in Science Broadcast Journalism in Carleton University's School of Journalism and Communication which she joined in 2001.
She started her career as a researcher for CBC radio in Montreal in 1977 and soon became a current affairs radio producer in Montreal and Edmonton. Her first freelance story as a writer-broadcaster was on Acid Rain in 1978. In the eighties, she worked as a local consumer reporter for CTV in Montreal and the national consumer columnist with CBC TV in Ottawa where she also co-anchored the evening news. After hosting the CBC's afternoon drive show in Toronto for six years, she went back to school to earn an MSc in Science Communication in 1998.
In the past decade, O'Hara served on science advisory boards, journalism scholarship and awards committees, boards of directors and research initiatives including the Council of Canadian Academies' Expert Panel on Research Integrity.
She wrote the 2009 Mentoring Guide for Science Journalists for the World Federation of Science Journalists and contributed articles on environment and health to the Literary Review of Canada.
Kathy Redmond
Switzerland
Kathy Redmond is editor of the European School of Oncology's magazine Cancer World and is Co-ordinator of the School's Cancer Media Service. Ms Redmond also provides consulting services for governments, non-profit and commercial organisations on cancer-related projects. She has co-ordinated a number of European education projects targeted at cancer patients and nurses and regularly facilitates meetings between all the stakeholders involved in the European cancer arena. Ms Redmond has served as President of the European Oncology Nursing Society and as a Board member of numerous International organisations. She was awarded the EONS Distinguished Merit Award in recognition of her contribution to the development of cancer nursing in Europe. She played a pivotal role in establishing the European Cancer Patient Coalition. In 2008 she took the lead in revising the World Cancer Declaration on behalf of the Union for International Cancer Control. Ms Redmond is a Fellow of the European Academy of Cancer Sciences and is a member of ECCO's Policy Committees.
Kelly Chibale
South Africa
Kelly Chibale is currently a Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa. He is a Full Member of the Institute of Infectious Disease & Molecular Medicine. In 2008 he was awarded a Tier 1 South Africa Research Chair in Drug Discovery under the South African Research Chairs Initiative. In 2009 he became the founding Director of the MRC/UCT Drug Discovery and Development Research Unit. In the same year (2009) he was elected a Life Fellow of UCT and a Fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa. In 2010 he became the founding Director of the UCT Drug Discovery and Development Centre. His research has been in the field of drug discovery and has been underpinned by (Hit to Lead and Lead Optimization) medicinal chemistry.
Kendrick Frazier
USA
Kendrick Frazier is editor of the Skeptical Inquirer: The Magazine for Science and Reason and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a science writer with interests in the earth sciences, astronomy, the relationships between science and the public, philosophical issues of science, and critiques of pseudoscience. Frazier was formerly editor of Science News magazine, where he also covered the earth sciences and science policy. He is author of four science-related books and editor of six other books, most recently Science Under Siege: Defending Science, Exposing Pseudoscience (Prometheus Books, 2009), a collection of recent articles from the Skeptical Inquirer. SI is published by the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, which promotes scientific inquiry and critical investigation in examining controversial and extraordinary claims (www.csicop.org). Frazier is a fellow of CSI serves on the boards of CSI and the Center for Inquiry.
Khaled Hassan
Egypt
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Laeed Zaghlami
Algeria
Laeed is the Associate Professor in the faculty of politics and information sciences at Algiers University, at the National High School of Journalism and High School of Politics Algiers and the Assistant to DG of Algerian Broadcasting. He writes for both the national and international press. He is the holder of MPHIL degree University of Surrey UK and has a Diploma in International Academy of Broadcasting from Montreux Switzerland. He has contributed to a number of publications including , Hand Book of Mass Media in the Middle East' 1994 USA; 'Images of the US around the World, An Algerian Perspective' 1999 NY University Press. Studies: 'Future of Algerian Public Service Broadcasting' April 2004 HBF Tokyo Japan. 'Women Journalists's Attitudes towards ICTs Implementation' Armac South Africa 9/2005; '50 years of Journalism ' June 2007 by Rhodes University and Co South Africa; 'Citizen Journalism & Democracy in Africa ' an exploratory Study School of Journalism & Media Studies, Rhodes University July 2010.
Leonor Sierra
UK
Leonor is Science and Policy Manager at the UK charity Sense About Science. Since 2011 she’s taken on the exciting role of developing Sense About Science’s work internationally. Leonor has a degree in Natural Sciences and a PhD in Microelectronics from the University of Cambridge.
Leonor joined Sense About Science in February 2008 as Scientific Liaison, after becoming interested in science communication and science policy. In this role she matched scientists with projects and requests for help, and was responsible for communications and events. She regularly coordinates and edits “Making Sense of” guides for Sense About Science. Leonor frequently gives talks to education groups, associations, scientists and companies about science communication and chairs workshops for young scientists. Leonor also writes articles for learned societies’ magazines and contributes to television and radio debates about science and medicine.
Lisa Lambert
Canada
Lisa Lambert supports a broad range of communications, external relations, partnerships and programming at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI). Prior to joining PI, Lisa worked at the intersection of science, society and policy in various research and science communication capacities.
Lisa holds an Honours B.Sc. in neuroscience and completed her graduate studies in science communication where she researched the role of science in public policy development. To supplement her graduate training, Lisa earned certificates in writing and professional communication as well as participated in a science communication residency at the Banff Centre. Outside of PI, Lisa is a member of the editorial team of the Journal of Infection in Developing Countries.
Luisa Massarani
Brazil
Luisa Massarani is a Brazilian science journalist. She started writing science stories in 1987, when she was still in the university. She quickly realised that this was the profession she was looking for! Since then, she has been writing for different mass medias (magazines, newspapers and websites). She is now the coordinator of the Latin American and the Caribbean gateway of SciDev.Net - the Science and Development Network (www.scidev.net) -, a website dedicated to providing reliable and authoritative information about science and technology for the developing world. She also works in a hands on science museum in Brazil, Museum of Life. Luisa also enjoys writing for a very special audience: kids! She writes now for Folhinha, a kids supplement of Folha de São Paulo, one of the main Brazilian newspapers.
Lynne Friedmann
USA
Lynne Friedmann is a freelance science writer living near San Diego, California, USA. She is editor of ScienceWriters, published by the National Association of Science Writers. Friedmann teaches science writing (University of California, San Diego Extension); is an instructor for the annual Jack F. Ealy Workshop on Science Journalism for Latin American reporters (Institute for the Americas); and in 2010 was invited by the Science Media Centre of Japan to lecture in Tokyo. She was a 2006 Environmental Journalism Fellow at the National Tropical Botanical Garden in Hawai'i. Friedmann is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Association for Women in Science (AWIS), and Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) in recognition of her "leadership and significant contributions to the public communication of science and technology."
Lynne Smit
South Africa
Lynne Smit is owner and founder of Of Course Media, a team of very experienced freelance journalists, editors, designers, photographers and videographers. She specialises in understanding and 'translating' the most complex and technical of subjects, finding the news angle, and writing news copy that people want to read.
Her career track record includes 30 years experience working as a reporter and sub editor on various publications, including the Cape Times, Argus, Star and the Financial Times (London). She founded Of Course Media, an association of freelance journalists, graphic designers, photographers and sub editors in 2006. Most of the company's clients are in the development, science and academic arenas. She is currently a mentor on the WFSJ's SjCOOP II project. She teaches a social media skills course for the South African Institute for the Advancement of Journalism. She was recently in Uganda, teaching news writing skills to parliamentary researchers from 13 African countries. She managed the communications for WHO's Global Ministerial Forum on Research for Health in Mali. She is also the author of three textbooks and the editor of a book on education in South Africa.
Magdy A. M. Said
Egypt
Egyptian editor, writer, & researcher. Born in Cairo at 1961. Graduated from Faculty of Medicine, Cairo Univ. at 1986. He got a Diploma of African Studies, from the Department of Anthropology,Cairo University, at 1996. He worked as a science journalist for the first time in "Al- Ateba'a" Magazine of Egyption Medical Syndicate at 1992. Editor & participant in "Guidebook of the Arab Science Journalist", 2008. Board & founding Member of Arab Science Journalists Association (ASJA) since 2006. Have 14 published books in the fields of development, & science journalism.
Marc Abrahams
USA
Marc Abrahams is editor and co-founder of the science humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR) and its web site and blog (www.improbable.com) and TV series. He writes about research that makes people LAUGH, and then THINK.
Marc is the father and master of ceremonies of the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony. The Prizes are handed out by genuine Nobel Laureates at a gala ceremony held each October at Harvard University.
He writes a weekly column for the British newspaper The Guardian, columns for other magazines, and books, and librettos for fifteen (and counting) science mini-operas that premiered as part of the Ig Nobel Prize ceremonies. He was the editor of the Journal of Irreproducible Results, and is the hero in a Japanese manga.
Marc has a degree in applied mathematics from Harvard College, spent several years developing optical character recognition , and later founded an educational software company.
Marcus Herbert
UK
Marcus has helped build up BBC Scotland's Glasgow-based team into one of the BBC TV's major suppliers of science programmes. His production credits include Jimmy's Global Harvest, Cell (Association of British Science Writers award winner), and Darwin's Garden (winner, Japan Prize). Amongst his current projects in a major co-production with the Discovery Channel. In recent months he has also played a leading role in drawing up an innovation strategy for BBC programme-makers over the next five years. His background is in current affairs: he was previously assistant editor on Newsnight (BBC2) and he worked for several years as a foreign news producer in Washington and Moscow. In 2009-10, he was a Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University, where he explored the impact of digital technology on factual TV.
Margaret Munro
Canada
Margaret Munro is Senior Writer with Postmedia News, which serves 11 newspapers across Canada including the Montreal Gazette, Ottawa Citizen and Vancouver Sun. Munro has been writing about science for 30 years - starting at the Ottawa Citizen, then moving to the Vancouver Sun and National Post. In 2003 she joined Canwest News (now Postmedia News). Munro's work has taken her from the Arctic to write about ancient permafrost melting into the sea to remote Canadian communities struggling to cope with debilitating diabetes epidemics. She has also helped expose how the Canadian government has been muzzling scientists. Munro's honors includes several writing awards from the Canadian Science Writers' Association, the 2003 Michener Fellowship for Public Service Journalism, the 2008 David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism and a 2009 media award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.
Maria Cheng
UK
Maria Cheng has been the AP's European medical writer based in London since 2006. She covers a broad range of issues, including global public health. Before joining the AP, Cheng was a communications officer for the World Health Organization and worked on infectious disease outbreaks including SARS, bird flu and polio, based in Geneva and various U.N. offices worldwide. Cheng previously worked in Hong Kong as a reporter for various publications, including Asiaweek and Time Magazine. She attended the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York and is a native of Canada.
Marietta di Christina
USA
Mariette DiChristina oversees Scientific American, ScientificAmerican.com, Scientific American MIND and all newsstand special editions. A science journalist for more than 20 years, she first came to Scientific American in 2001 as its executive editor. She is also the president (in 2009 and 2010) of the 2,500-member National Association of Science Writers. DiChristina is a frequent lecturer and has appeared at the 92nd Street Y in New York, Yale University and New York University among many others.
Previously, she spent nearly 14 years at Popular Science in positions culminating as executive editor. Her work in writing and overseeing articles about space topics helped garner that magazine the Space Foundation's 2001 Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award. She is former chair of Science Writers in New York (2001 to 2004) and a member of the American Society of Magazine Editors and the Society of Environmental Journalists.
Mariko Takahashi
Japan
Mariko is a staff writer in the science and medical news section of the Asahi Shimbun newspaper in Tokyo. She is a founding member of the Japanese Association of Science and Technology Journalists, having been a board member of JASTJ since 1992. She also served as a board member for the World Federation of Science Journalists from 2002-2007.
Mariluce Moura
Brazil
Mariluce Moura is a Brazilian journalist. For almost 20 years she worked on financial journalism for some of the biggest newspapers and specialized magazines of the country. After that, since 1988, she has been a science journalist. Beyond the pleasure of writing science stories, during this time she has created or redesigned science news magazines, radio shows and other media. CNPq's Revista Brasileira de Tecnologia is an example of redesign, in 1989, and in 1999 she created Pesquisa Fapesp magazine. She has also conceived and organized important science communication departments, as she did at FAPESP in 1995. Today she is the director and Editor in chief of Pesquisa Fapesp, the most respected science news magazine in Brazil, while developing new journalism projects to showcase Brazilian science.
Marina Joubert
South Africa
Marina Joubert has more than two decades' experience of developing science communication in Southern Africa. She obtained a master's degree in science from the University of Pretoria, and a postgraduate degree in journalism from Stellenbosch University.
Her career started in 1988 at South Africa's National Research Foundation (NRF) where she established a science communication unit and pioneered several science communication initiatives. She joined the South African Agency for Science and Technology Advancement as science communication manager in 2002.
In 2006, she launched an independent science communication consultancy to provide a range of science communication services, including media skills courses for scientists and introductory courses to science journalism.
Marina is a member of the international PCST (Public Communication of Science and Technology) scientific committee, and she serves on the editorial advisory board of the journal Science Communication.
Martin Enserink
France
Martin Enserink has worked as a writer for Science magazine since 1999, first at the magazine's headquarters in Washington D.C., and since 2004 as a contributing correspondent in Paris and Amsterdam. He specializes in infectious diseases, global health and science policy. A native of the Netherlands, he has a Masters' degree in biology from the University of Groningen; before joining Science, he worked for a variety of media outlets in the Netherlands.
Enserink won the American Society for Microbiology's Communications Award in 2004 and 2008, for stories on SARS in China and malaria drugs, respectively. His story about the failing promise of Golden Rice was included in the Best American Science Writing 2009.
In 2010, he became a mentor in SjCOOP, a program run by the World Federation of Science Journalists to support science journalism in Africa and the Arab world.
Martin Ince
UK
Martin Ince is a UK science journalist and author, most recently of the Rough Guide to the Earth. His writing has appeared in Times Higher Education, The Times, The Australian, the New Scientist and many other publications. He was founder of the World University Rankings in 2004. He often trains scientists and other experts to face the media. He was a judge of this year's UK and Ireland Science Writing Awards.
Maryn McKenna
USA
Maryn McKenna is an award-winning magazine journalist who specializes in public health, global health and infectious disease. She is the author of SUPERBUG: The Fatal Menace of MRSA (2010) and BEATING BACK THE DEVIL: On the Front Lines with the Disease Detectives of the Epidemic Intelligence Service (2004), named one of the Top 10 Science Books of the year by Amazon. She has been a newspaper reporter at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Boston Herald and Cincinnati Enquirer and is a former staff member at the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy of the University of Minnesota. She has held journalism fellowships at the Dart Center of Columbia University, East West Center, Kaiser Family Foundation, University of Michigan, Harvard Medical School and University of Maryland. She blogs for Wired.
Marzenna Nowakowska
Poland
Marzenna Nowakowska has a MSc from Warsaw University, Biology Department. She has worked as a freelance science writer since 1992. Since 2009 she is Vice-President of the Polish Science Journalists' Association Naukowi.pl.
Marzenna writes about wild animals, mostly their behaviour in a natural environment, behavioural ecology and sociobiology. She is the author of 13 books, co-author of 3 more. She has published over 500 articles in leading Polish magazines and newspapers. In 2008-2009 she was TV presenter in a natural history series Dzika Polska (Wild Poland).
Marzenna co-operates with the Institute of Oceanology in Sopot - where she works on her PhD on Turbellaria and with the University of Gdansk and the SEEN network (in Egypt, Ethiopia and Turkey trained students working at ringing stations). During 1994-1997 she was associated editor of the scientific journal Acta Ornithologica issued by the Museum and Institute of Zoology, Polish Academy of Science.
In 2009 Marzenna was awarded the Polish Science Communicator of the Year prize.
Melanie Hueser
UK
Melanie is Marketing Manager for SciDev.Net, covering for Clair Grant-Salmon, who is on maternity leave. Melanie has a background in marketing in the not-for-profit and higher education sector. She has previously worked for AdviceUK, the biggest membership organisation for independent advice centres in the UK and the Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences at Kingston University, where she was in charge of organising Open Days, workshops and conferences. Melanie has a Master's degree in Social Anthropology and completed her CIM Professional Certificate in Marketing earlier this year.
Mike Shanahan
UK
Mike Shanahan is the press officer at the International Institute for Environment and Development and the former news editor of the SciDev.Net news agency. He is a co-founder member of the Climate Change Media Partnership and the Biodiversity Media Alliance, which both aim to improve coverage of these issues in developing countries. Mike has written as a freelancer for The Economist and Nature and blogs on environment topics at www.underthebanyan.wordpress.com. Mike previously worked on research and communications for environmental and human rights projects in Asia and Latin America and has a doctorate in tropical rainforest ecology from the University of Leeds.
Moheb Costandi
UK
Moheb Costandi trained as a neuroscientist and now works as a freelance science writer. His work has appeared in BBC Focus, The Guardian, Scientific American, Seed Magazine, The Scientist and Technology Review, and he is also the author of the Neurophilosophy blog.
Mohamed Abdrabo
Egypt
Mohamed Abdel-Karim Aly Abdrabo received his Ph.D. degree in 1991 at the Department of Civic Design, University of Liverpool, U.K. in 1991. Currently work as a Professor of environmental economics, Department of Environmental Studies, Institute of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Alexandria, Egypt.
A Leader Author for the upcoming Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report. Worked between 2000 and 2008, as an Advisor, to Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe (CEDARE). Worked as a consultant to a number of environment-related research projects in a number of countries in the Middle East and North Africa region, sponsored by various donors.
His research work in the fields of environmental and urban socioeconomic assessments, economics of the environment and vulnerability and adaptation to impacts of climate change.
Mohammed Yahia
Egypt
Mohammed Yahia is the editor of Nature Middle East, a new portal from Nature Publishing Group focusing on science and research in the Arab world. For over three years, Mohammed Yahia has worked on raising the profile of science and science journalism in the Middle East. He graduated from Cairo University with a bachelor degree in Pharmacy and Pharmacology. After a year working in community pharmacies and for major pharmaceutical organizations, Mohammed started reporting and editing for the Health & Science section at IslamOnline.net. Since then he has written for many different outlets, including Turkish Weekly and The Daily Star Egypt.
He worked as a media consultant with Kamal Adham Center inthe American University in Cairo (AUC). He was involved in the inauguration of the AUC Virtual Newsroom inside the virtual world of Second Life and taught a course there on media convergence. He is interested in exploring ways to apply journalism to evolving areas such as social networks, virtual worlds, and media integration.
Prior to joining Nature Middle East, Mohammed was the MENA region editor for the website SciDev.Net.
Mona Khanna
USA
Mona Khanna, MD, MPH, FACP, a triple board certified physician and Emmy Award winner, was chosen as the journalist representative for the charter FDA Risk Communication Advisory Panel, and has spoken extensively about the role of communication by pharmaceutical companies. Her unique perspective is as a physician who prescribes medications, as a panel member who has had to judge the clinical trials of medications up for FDA approval and who has looked critically at mitigating drug risk through communication, and as a medical journalist who has to provide thoughtful reporting on medications, many of which are manufactured in other countries. A former reporter for The Wall Street Journal, she co-produced and hosted the award-winning half-hour CBS special titled "Mexico's Medications." Dr Mona is the only medical doctor inducted into the Medill Hall of Achievement, as well as the only career journalist inducted into the Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society.
Motoko Kakubayashi
Japan
Motoko Kakubayashi joined the SMCJ team at Waseda University, Tokyo, after working as a contributor at the SMC in New Zealand. She completed a Master's degree in physics from Massey University before an ongoing interest in science journalism lead her to complete a Graduate Diploma in Journalism. Having grown up in New Zealand, she is fluent in English and Japanese and is interested in making Eastern and Western science more accessible to both the local Japanese media and international media. She was one of the main media officers at the SMCJ working with the overseas media and SMCs during the Tohoku earthquake.
Musa Elkheir
Sudan
I am Musa Elkheir Fadl Alla, from Sudan with Ph.D. from Washington, USA. I am science based by education and profession. I also have degree in journalism. I work as radio environmental journalist for Sudanese Environment Conservation Society English Service FM 98, Sudan for the period 15th February 2005 to date. I also write and edit weekly page in magazine called ‘Research and Development’ of the National the Research Center. I won Siemens Prize of Science Journalists February 2005.
I have been selected in peer to peer program of the World Federation of Science Journalists as mentee in September 2006 and then promoted to mentor in October 2007. I also write on environmental issues for Environment in focus magazine, based in Khartoum, Sudan and owned by the National Research Center, in Arabic, English and Arabic on weekly basis.
Mutasem El Fadel
Lebanon
Dr El-Fadel is currently a Professor and Director, Water Resources Center (AUB) and Dar Al-Handasah (Shair & Partners) Chair in Engineering. He is also a senior consultant to the World Bank on environmental safeguards in the MENA region. He holds a BE in Civil Engineering from AUB, an MS in Environmental Engineering, an MS in Water Resources Engineering, and a PhD in Environmental Engineering, all from Stanford University, California.
Dr El-Fadel is a licensed engineer in Lebanon and a registered professional engineer in California, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Michigan and Wisconsin. He has worked in the US, Europe, and the MENA region. He has served in several US Federal Courts to provide expert testimony related to cases in environmental and water resources management. Served as an expert consultant on projects funded by the EC, UNDP, UNEP, UNOPS, ESCWA, USIA, USAID, IDRC, WHO, etc.
Dr El-Fadel has a distinguished publication record in environmental and water resources management with more than 400 papers, proceedings, and reports in various international and regional outlets.
Nadia El-Awady
Egypt
Nadia El-Awady is the president of the World Federation of Science Journalists and the co-director of the World Conference of Science Journalists 2011. She has a B.Sc. in medicine from Cairo University and an MA in journalism and mass communication from the American University in Cairo. She is a founding member and was the first president of the Arab Science Journalists Association. El-Awady worked as the science editor at IslamOnline.net for several years and has freelanced for many international media organizations. After IslamOnline, she taught online and science journalism at Al-Ahram Canadian University and managed training projects in Egypt in investigative reporting and citizen journalism for the International Center for Journalists. She is currently working full time to organize the WCSJ2011 and is looking forward to new and as-of-yet unknown endeavors once the conference is over.
Nadim Khouri
Lebanon
Dr Nadim Khouri, a national of Lebanon, is Director of Near East, North Africa and Europe at the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) since 2008. One of his responsibilities is to lead IFAD's activities in the tripartite World Bank-FAO-IFAD operational initiative on Food Security in the Arab Region.
Prior to joining IFAD, Dr Khouri had a 20-year career at the World Bank in Washington DC, where he held various policy and operational positions on rural investments in development in the Middle-East, North Africa, South Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Between 1979 and 1988 he held positions of Researcher at the American University and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst as well as a 5-year Soils and Irrigation Specialist position at Dar Al-Handassah, an international consultancy firm.
Dr. Khouri has a PhD in Agronomy from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (USA), an MSc of Agricultural Development from the University of London (UK) and a BSc and MSc in Agronomy from the American University of Beirut (Lebanon). He is also the very proud father of a daughter journalist, whose first assignments included the AAAS annual convention in Washington DC and coverage of the science behind the avian flu.
Naila Hamdy
Egypt
Naila Hamdy, PhD is an Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Her teaching and research interests focus on various aspects of the journalism profession, media convergence, and media development in Egypt and the Arab region. She teaches both in the undergraduate and graduate programs. She has published in the International Communication Gazette, Journal of Middle East Media, The Global Media Journal, Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research and the Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture.
Hamdy is Immediate Past President of the Arab-US Association for Communication Educators (AUSACE), and is member of the Broadcast Educators Association (BEA), Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR).
Hamdy is a former television journalist who has worked for a variety of international television stations.
Nancy Shute
USA
Nancy Shute is an award-winning American journalist who has worked as a writer and editor for national magazines, a television and radio reporter, and an instructor of science writing and multimedia journalism.
She directed science and technology coverage for U.S. News & World Report, where she was assistant managing editor. She also served as a senior writer and blogger for US News, covering health policy, neuroscience, pediatrics, infectious disease, and public health law. She now contributes to National Public Radio, National Geographic, Scientific American, and other publications. Shute trains journalists in the uses of social media and other new technologies, and teaches science writing at Johns Hopkins University's Advanced Academic Programs. She is a frequent guest on national radio and television.
Prior to joining U.S. News in 1997, she was a correspondent for Outside magazine and contributed to many other publications, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Smithsonian, New Republic, and National Review. Shute graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a bachelor's in English literature and received a master's from Yale Law School in 1980. As a Fulbright Scholar, she founded the first bilingual independent newspaper in Kamchatka, Russia.
Nancy has been active in NASW for many years as a volunteer and board member. She became NASW president in November 2010.
Natasha Mitchell
Australia
Natasha Mitchell is a science/health/culture journalist, and host and producer of the popular radio program, All in the Mind, with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation [http://abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind]. In 2005/6 she was a Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT, and currently serves on the board of World Federation of Science Journalists, amongst other appointments. Her work has received accolades internationally, including the overall Grand Prize and 4 Gold World Medals at the New York Radio Festivals, 4 Australian & New Zealand Mental Health Broadcast Media Awards, the Yooralla Disability Media Award, the Australasian Association of Philosophy Media Professionals' Award, a Marine Biological Laboratory Science Journalism Fellowship (USA), amongst others. Natasha originally trained as an engineer, and has been a broadcaster for over a decade. She regularly hosts public events and forums in Australia, and is active in linking radio with social media through her podcasts, blog, Twitter and Audioboo feeds.
Nguyen Dang Vulong
Vietnam
Long is an editor and journalist for the Foreign Investment Review of VietNam and senior journalist for the science session of the Vietnam Law & Life newspaper. He has also written for SciDev.net.
Nicolas Luco
Chile
Nicolás Luco, 68, from Chile, a journalist by training, has tried to develop a mix between science writing and sensationalism, in the sense of writing to provoke sensations. In the late sixties he authored a TV soap opera, a TV play, numerous TV scripts, and worked in extension programs for the Catholic University. From 1976 to 1979, in a NGO he prepared communication projects (radio, mostly) and trained personnel for three different provincial Catholic Bishops’ radios.
He was asked to work in “El Mercurio” Sunday Magazine in 1979. He wrote humor, people and places stories, ecology and some science and technology. In 1990 “El Mercurio” named him editor of a new Science & Tech 16 page weekly, which he led until 2000.
From 2000 to 2009 he edited two daily pages of “El Mercurio” revealing Science, Technology, the Internet and Videogames news. He still publishes in the newspaper as a freelance.
Ochieng' Ogodo
Kenya
Ochieng' Ogodo is a Kenyan science journalist and is responsible for coordinating correspondents and coverage from Sub-Saharan Africa for SciDev.Net. He is the English-speaking Africa and the Middle East region winner for the 2008 Reuters-IUCN Media Awards for Excellence in Environmental Reporting. Ochieng' is the chairman of the Kenya Environment and Science Journalists Association (KENSJA).
As a journalist, his works have been published in various parts of the world including Africa, UK and the USA, including publication in the Egypt based Islamonline, Science Africa (Kenya), The Standard (Kenya) -- where he started his journalism, New Agriculturalist, The Guardian and National Geographic. He has a deep interest in science journalism and has also presented papers at conferences on the Media and Environmental Protection and Climate Change Reporting: The Developing Word Perspective.
Olfa Labassi
Canada
Olfa Labassi is the Project Manager of the ongoing SjCOOP project of the World Federation of Science Journalists. She has been involved with the Federation since December 2006 and before that she had worked as a Finance Manager in Tunisia.
She holds a Bachelor degree in Computer science and a Masters degree in Project Management.
Passionate and dedicated to International Development, the WFSJ contributed to fulfilling Ms. Labassi's dream through its flagship project SjCOOP. Helping spread science journalism Worldwide and colleagues in developing countries is her main daily concern.
Otulah Owuor
Kenya
Currently Editor and Publisher ScienceAfrica which actually has its roots in the last Sjcoop where the need for Africa based science publication aiming at cross border stories was noted. I have been a science journalist for the almost three decades covering various areas and aspects of science, technology and development in Africa. Served for a decade as the first full time Science Write/Editor for the Nation Media Group. As a media trainer I initiated a number of hands-on journalism training projects aiming at improving both the quality and quality of science news. Been a media consultant for a number of organizations including UNAIDS, WHO, UNEP, IWMF, PRB and others. Also involved in reviewing coverage of health issues for Internews among others. Also working towards getting African science journalists to meet more often within the continent.
Oumy Khaïry Ndiaye
Senegal
Oumy Khaïry Ndiaye is the manager of the Communication Service Department at the Technical Centres for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP/EU CTA. Since 2009 she has been working on the identification and implementation of a strategy to enhance the coverage of agriculture by the media in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific, including assessment of challenges, facilitation of joint training for researchers and the media, and the promotion of the use of web 2.0 tools and social media.
Before joining CTA, Oumy was coordinator of the African Women Leader in Agriculture and the Environment Program of Winrock International in Senegal and a sociologist, communication expert, and gender specialist for the Forestry Department in Senegal.
Oumy has a Master of Arts in Sociology from the Université Laval in Quebec and a journalism degree from the Université de Dakar in Senegal.
Pallab Ghosh
UK
Pallab Ghosh is one of the BBC's Science Correspondents, working across TV, radio and the BBC News Website. Before working for the BBC Pallab was Science News Editor for New Scientist. He is also Past President of the World Federation of Science Journalists. In his time with the Federation he has tried to promote a culture of "Kick-Ass" journalism. Pallab believes that it is now more important than ever for us to challenge the information given to us and to be aware that much of it is one-sided and comes from those representing the interests of "Big Science". The job of journalists is to be the eyes and ears of our audience and to be constructively critical of the field we cover. Pallab's favourite dictum is from British Newspaper proprietor, Lord Northcliffe: "news is something, someone wants to keep secret. Everything else is advertising".
Pallava Bagla
India
Pallava Bagla is a New Delhi-based science journalist who has been writing for SCIENCE continuously for the last 15 years and is concurrently the Science Editor for New Delhi Television (NDTV), India's most respected private 24-hour news network. Most recently he was awarded the 2010 David Perlman Award for Excellence in Science Journalism for his decisive expose on how the UN panel the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), had grossly overestimated the melt rate of Himalayan glaciers. He is also a freelance photographer contributing to Corbis with publications in National Geographic; Time; and Newsweek among others. He has extensively reported from inside India's secretive space and nuclear energy programs, from locations usually out of bounds for journalists. His latest book published by HarperCollins explores India's mission to the Moon and is titled `Destination Moon: India's Quest for Moon, Mars and Beyond.'
Patrick Luganda
Uganda
Patrick Luganda is a seasoned journalist and media trainer with expertise in agriculture, climate and climate change, women, and rural development. He has worked in newspapers and radio as well as in media consultancy and is also a commercial farmer. He was awarded the A.H. Boerma award by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization in 1998-99.
Pauline Dole
Canada
As Senior Public Outreach Officer, Pauline's job is to raise the profile of IDRC through the Centre's participation in events and conferences--be they in Canada or abroad. When staff or IDRC-funded researchers are in Ottawa or touring the country, she facilitates their speaking engagements. She also promotes IDRC's publications through book launches and online advertising.
Peggy Girshman
USA
Peggy Girshman is the Executive Editor for online at Kaiser Health News, a non-profit news service covering health care and health policy. It is an editorially independent program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, which is a nonpartisan operating foundation based in Washington D.C.
Peggy spent her early years working as a producer for television stations in Washington DC and New York City and as the senior producer for several PBS series, including Scientific American Frontiers and a 26-part series on statistics. She edited science and health news at National Public Radio (NPR), eventually becoming a Managing Editor responsible for "converging" the radio and digital parts of NPR News.
She has had two journalism fellowships, at the Marine Biological Lab, and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the winner of a national Emmy award, a co-winner of the AAAS science-writing prize and two Peabody awards for covering health policy. She is the vice president of the National Association of Science Writers.
Pelagie Ng'Onana
Cameroon
Ms. Ng'Onana is graduated from the Advanced School of Mass Communication (ASMAC) in Yaoundé, Cameroon. Since her graduation in 2005, she participated in many sciences 'related workshops as she is fascinated by science and how it contributes to improving humans' lives. She is currently working as a journalist in the daily newspaper "La Nouvelle Expression". In her news room, Ms. Ng'Onana is involved in Sciences and culture desk. She also joined the Cameroonian science journalists association since 2007 as she believes that science is fundamental to change and improve life's conditions.
Penny Park
Canada
Park comes to the Science Media Centre of Canada with extensive hands-on experience in radio and television science journalism in Canada. She worked over a decade as a producer and senior producer with "Quirks and Quarks," the award-winning weekly radio science program on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Since 1995, Park has been with Discovery Channel Canada, where she helped develop the show now called "Daily Planet" - the world's first nightly TV science news program and the first Canadian TV news program sold to the US. As senior producer of international specials at Discovery Canada, Park was responsible for a number of award winning series on science in Japan, China, India, Brazil and Australia.
Pere Estupinyà
USA/Spain
Pere Estupinyà is the Latin American Knight Science Journalism tracker at MIT. He lives in Washington DC, while working as a consultant on science communication issues at the Interamerican Development Bank (BID). He writes to El Pais, is the science correspondent to the Spanish News Service SINC, and has just published the book "El ladrón de cerebros". He previously was the editor of the Scientific TV program REDES, a 07-08 MIT-Knight Fellow, and worked for two years at the National Institutes of Health.
Philip Hilts
USA
Philip J. Hilts is the director of the MIT Knight Science Journalism Fellowships, Cambridge, MA. He is the author of six books and spent some 20 years as a health and science reporter for both The New York Times and The Washington Post. At the Times, Hilts broke the story of the tobacco industry's 40-year cover-up of its own research showing that tobacco was harmful and addictive. He has covered health issues in Africa, including a Zambian village where a traditional healer was "curing" AIDS. His most recent book was Rx for Survival: Why We Must Rise to the Global Health Challenge. He is also the author of Protecting America's Health: The FDA, Business, and One Hundred Years of Regulation. Hilts has been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, a Harvard School of Public Health fellow and a commentator on health and science for National Public Radio.
Philippe Bijvoet
Belgium
Philippe Bijvoet is a director/editor at the VRT, the Public Broadcast of the Flemish Community of Belgium. After studying at the Flemish Film, TV and Theatre Academy in Brussels he became a freelance director before moving to the education department of the VRT in 1978. He specialized in science, technology and history programmes. In 1985 he started producing modular based multimedia programmes for a more effective use by targeted audiences. Since 1996 he has been directing science magazines and documentaries. In the past years he specialized in reformatting science documentaries. He was, till 2009, the vice-chairman of the Science & Educational experts group of the EBU (European Broadcast Union).
Rafik Ouerchefani
Tunisia
Rafik is the co-founder and managing editor of Webdo.tn, a Tunisian online news website that was launched in October 2010. Webdo rapidly became one of the most successful media sites in the country. Rafik is passionate about new technologies and is a free software evangelist. He has been an Ubuntu member since 2008, and travels the country speaking about free software and ethics in technology.
He holds a degree in medical biotechnology and currently finishing a masters in genetics and molecular biology at the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis. His goal is to have a career as a researcher in bioinformatics and a journalist.
Rafik plans on continuing to explore the fields of biology, computer science and journalism, and to explore the ways he can best share his passion for science and technology with his readers.
Raghida Haddad
Lebanon
Raghida Haddad, from Lebanon, is executive editor of Al-Bia Wal-Tanmia (Environment & Development), the leading environment magazine in the Middle East and North Africa. A biologist and university lecturer, she was managing editor of Al-Mukhtar, the Arabic edition of The Reader's Digest. In 2009, she won the Earth Journalism Award for the feature she wrote about her journey to the Arctic, where she navigated for two weeks, getting first-hand experience of global warming.
Raghida is currently the Coordinator of the Arabophone Group within the WFSJ's SjCOOP project.
Randy Olson
USA
RANDY OLSON is the writer/director of the feature films, "Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus," (Tribeca '06, Showtime '07), "Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy" (Outfest '08) and author of, "Don't Be Such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style" (Island Press '09). His work focuses on the challenges involved in communicating science to the general public, and the current attacks on mainstream science in fields such as evolution and climate science. He is a former marine biologist (Ph.D. Harvard University) who achieved tenure at the University of New Hampshire before changing careers to filmmaking by obtaining an M.F.A. in Cinema from the University of Southern California. He is an adjunct faculty member with the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies at U.S.C., while his production company, Prairie Starfish Productions, is based at Raleigh Studios in Los Angeles.
Raymond Laflamme
Canada
Dr. Raymond Laflamme is Executive Director of the Institute for Quantum Computing at the University of Waterloo in Canada, and a founding faculty member of Waterloo's Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. He completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge under the direction of Stephen Hawking. He has held a Killam postdoctoral fellowship at the University of British Columbia, a research fellowship at Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge, and was a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory until 2001. Professor Laflamme is also currently the Director of QuantumWorks, Canada's national research consortium on quantum information science, and has been Director of the Quantum Information Program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) since 2003, and a CIFAR Fellow since 2001. Professor Laflamme holds the Canada Research Chair in Quantum Information. He has contributed to many areas of science, from cosmology to quantum information. Beyond his academic career, Dr. Laflamme has a passion for arts, particularly the intersection of art and science. He also enjoys the outdoors and loves to build things with his hands.
Rebecca Chiao
Egypt
Rebecca T. Chiao is Co-Founder and Director of HarassMap, a volunteer initiative that combines mobile and internet technology and community activism to end the social acceptability of sexual harassment in Egypt. She received her MA in International Development and International Economics from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a certificate in Strategic Frameworks for NGOs from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government, and her BA in Politics and Pre-Medicine from New York University. In addition to directing HarassMap, she currently serves as Development and Communications Consultant to INJAZ Egypt. She has lived and worked in Cairo, Egypt since 2004, where at the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights, she served as Director of International Relations and founded and managed their highly successful Campaign Against Sexual Harassment. She also served on the UN Development Assistance Framework M&E Task Force, as Development Officer at Ashoka Arab World and as pro-bono consultant to a number of Egyptian organizations.
Reto Schneider
Switzerland
Reto U. Schneider is the deputy editor of NZZ Folio the magazine of the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in Zürich, Switzerland. He is well known for his monthly column "The Experiment" about the strange stories behind unusual scientific experiments. His books include "Das Buch der verrückten Experimente" (UK: "The Mad Science Book") which became "Science Book of the Year 2005" in Germany. He blogs about real dogs meeting robot dogs and references to experiments in cartoons at weirdexperiments.com.
Richard Stone
China
Richard Stone oversees Science Magazine's Asia news coverage. He opened Science's Beijing bureau in October 2007 after a 2-year stint in Bangkok. After receiving a biology degree from Cornell University in 1988, Stone studied biophysics at the University of Pennsylvania before discovering his calling as a science writer. He earned a science communication degree at University of California, Santa Cruz, then interned at The Washington Post and Science before joining Science as a staff writer in 1991.
Stone was a Fulbright scholar in Russia in 1995-96 and in Kazakhstan in 2004-05. He served as news editor in Science's European office in Cambridge, U.K., from 2000 to 2004, during which time he was also Visiting Writer in Science at the University of Cambridge. He has won awards for articles that have appeared in Science, Discover, Smithsonian, and National Geographic, and he is the author of "Mammoth: The Resurrection of an Ice Age Giant."
Rim Turkmani
UK
Dr Rim Turkmani is an Astrophysicists at the Imperial College in London and Research Fellow of the Royal Society, her research focus is on particle acceleration in solar flares. She also specialises in the impact of the Arabic/Islamic science on the scientific revolution, conducted original research in this area, which she converted into the 'Arabick Roots' exhibition at the Royal Society. The exhibition celebrates the multicultural roots of science by showcasing the direct impact Arabic learning had on 17th century England. Dr Turkmani is very active in the media, commenting regularly on science news at the BBC, writing on science policy and taking part in TV and Radio discussions on the current statues of science and technology in the Arab and Muslim world. She took part in several documentaries on Arabic/Islamic science. In 2008 she founded The Damask Rose Trust, a UK based charity that supports educational and developmental initiatives in Syria.
Robert Barnard
Canada
Decoding Digital Friends is an international, multi-phase research project designed to gain a deep understanding of the attitudes and behaviour of young social media users. It is being conducted by DECODE. Its founder Robert Barnard has spent the last 15 years decoding youth, young adults and families.
Robert Finn
USA
Bob is Web Content Editor at the International Medical News Group (IMNG), a division of Elsevier that publishes 18 trade journals for physicians. Prior to that, he was IMNG's San Francisco Bureau Chief, where he covered medical meetings in virtually every medical subspecialty. Before joining IMNG, Bob was a freelance science and medical writer, and before that he was Senior Science Writer at the California Institute of Technology. Bob has written literally thousands of magazine and newspaper articles and two books: Cancer Clinical Trials: Experimental Treatments and How They Can Help You (O'Reilly, 1999) and Organ Transplants: Making the Most of Your Gift of Life (O'Reilly, 2000). Bob is serving his fourth term as a member of the board of the National Association of Science Writers.
Rosalind Reid
USA
Rosalind Reid's career has spanned newspaper reporting, magazine editing, online media and university research communication and administration. After earning degrees in journalism and public policy at Syracuse and Duke universities and starting out as a political reporter, she discovered science writing by serendipity and never looked back. During her tenure as editor-in-chief of American Scientist magazine (1992-2008), she took two "science immersion" sabbaticals at universities and moved the magazine online with a full suite of services in 2003. She is an advocate for improving the use of pictures in communicating complex ideas and has led communication workshops for scientists and engineers in the U.S., Latin America, Scandinavia, Canada and Europe. She serves on the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing and CASW's website. She is now Assistant Dean for External Programs at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and administers a new institute in computational science there.
Roseanne Diab
South Africa
Roseanne Diab (South Africa) is the executive officer of the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) and emeritus professor and honorary senior research associate at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban. She is a member of ASSAf and is recognized for her research contributions in the field of atmospheric sciences, particularly air quality and tropospheric ozone. She chairs the editorial board of the South African Journal of Science. Diab has been a Fulbright senior research scholar and has served as a member of a number of international commissions, including the Commission on Atmospheric Chemistry and Global Pollution (CACGP), the International Ozone Commission (IOC) and the Scientific Steering Committee of Stratospheric Ozone Processes and their Role in Climate (SPARC) and recently served as vice-chair of the Review Committee of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. She is a fellow of the South African Geographical Society and the University of Natal. Diab has a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville (USA).
Ruth Francis
UK
Ruth Francis is Head of Press at Nature Publishing Group (NPG) and leads a team who communicate new research published in Nature and other NPG journals to mainstream media around the world. She has coordinated media training for academics and press officers in Europe, Africa and Asia. She is currently Chair of Stempra - the Science Technology Engineering and Medical Public Relations Association. Previously she has promoted the research done in the medical and health sciences schools at King's College London and worked in the press and PR teams at Cancer Research UK. Ruth graduated from the University of Leeds with a BA Hons in English in 2000.
Safaa Kanj
Cyprus
Safaa Kanj is a journalist specialising in health news and the environment and working for Agence France-Presse. Based in Cyprus, she is a native speaker of Arabic with a deep knowledge of the region. She has strong experience as a trainer there. She was a judge in three journalistic and communications awards schemes in 2010.
Sallie Robins
UK
Sallie leads a double life as both a science publicist and a fitness instructor. After some disastrous practical exams during her BSc in Medical Biochemistry, Sallie realised that bench research might not be her forte, so after an MSc in Science Communication Sallie cut her teeth in public relations at the then British Association for Science (now the British Science Association) running the press office at the annual media jamboree that is the British Science Festival. Prior to working in public relations Sallie researched, wrote and promoted science and public health policy at the British Medical Association, writing reports on boxing, alcohol, the age of consent, cycling and other public health issues. For many years now Sallie has worked freelance initially as publicist to many popular science authors including Richard Dawkins and Martin Rees, but more recently with a variety of organisations including the Royal Society, the Science Museum, the Association of British Science Writers, the Cheltenham Science Festival and the Big Bang. Sallie was Co-Director of the World Conference of Science Journalists in 2009 and initiated and directed the first ever UK Conference of Science Journalism in London 2010. Sallie lives in London with her partner and her son aged 11.
Salman Hameed
USA
Salman Hameed is Assistant Professor of Integrated Science & Humanities (endowed chair) at Hampshire College, Massachusetts. His primary research interest focuses on understanding the rise of creationism in the Islamic world and how Muslims view the relationship between science & religion. He is currently the lead investigator of a 3-year NSF-funded study on this topic, and heads the Center for the Study of Science in Muslim Societies (SSiMS) at Hampshire College. His other research interests include analyzing reconciliation efforts over sacred objects and places of astronomical importance and new-religious movements (NRM). He teaches "History and Philosophy of Science & Religion" (w/ philosopher Dr. Laura Sizer), "Science in the Islamic World", "Evolution, Islam, and Modernity", and co-organizes the Hampshire College Lecture Series on Science & Religion. Salman also runs IRTIQA, a science & religion blog with an emphasis on scientific debates taking place in the Muslim world.
Sanday Chongo Kabange
Zambia
Sanday Chongo Kabange is a journalist in Zambia working with organizations such as Voice of America, My Wage Zambia, Africa Interactive, Wren Media and Africa Business News. He has worked on a number of assignments related to development, agriculture, science, environment, climate change, politics, conflicts, health, economics and HIV/AIDS.
Sanday has earned numerous awards including: the 2009 Best Water and Sanitation Reporting Award from the Media Institute of Southern Africa and Germany Technical Corporation to Zambia; the 2008 Best Electronic Environmental Journalist of the Year award from the Environmental Council of Zambia; the 2008 Most Independent Journalist from Radio Phoenix; the 2007 Best Electronic Science and Technology Journalist of the Year award from the Zambia National Science and Technology Council; among others.
He is a member of several national and international organizations: International AIDS Society (IAS), International Federation of Environmental Journalists (IFEJ), African Network for Environmental Journalists (ANEJ), Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA), Business and Financial Writers Forum, Federation of Zambian Science Journalists, Media Information Network for Development (MIND), Press Association of Zambia (PAZA), Africa Foreign Correspondents Bureau (AFCB) and Lusaka Press Club.
Sean Carroll
USA
Sean Carroll is a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in 1993 from Harvard University, and has previously worked at MIT, the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of Chicago. His research ranges over a number of topics in theoretical physics, focusing on cosmology, particle physics, and general relativity. He is the author of From Eternity to Here, a popular book on cosmology and the arrow of time; Spacetime and Geometry, a textbook on general relativity; has produced a set of introductory lectures for The Teaching Company entitled Dark Matter and Dark Energy: The Dark Side of the Universe; and is a co-founder of the popular science blog Cosmic Variance (cosmicvariance.com). He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, writer Jennifer Ouellette.
Shan Juan
China
Shan Juan is currently the health journalist and group leader for reporters writing on social issues of China Daily, the country's only English-language national newspaper. She reports on a wide range of health-related topics like food safety, vaccine safety, chronic diseases, health policies, and major infectious disease outbreaks. Given information explosive fueled by the Internet, she values health reporting and stories with special angle, in-depth investigation, and human interests. To achieve that, she has learnt multi-media skills like video shooting. Apart from the newspaper, she also shoots video and writes for China Daily website. In 2008, she has been selected as a Parvin fellow to study public health and journalism in Hawaii University for 9 months.
Shankar Vedantam
USA
Shankar Vedantam is a Washington Post reporter, a columnist for Slate Magazine and a non-fiction author. His latest book, The Hidden Brain: How our Unconscious Minds Elect Presidents, Control Markets, Wage Wars and Save Our Lives, was published by Random House in 2010. It looks at how unconscious biases influence people in domains ranging from disasters and moral quandaries to elections and work life. At the Post, Vedantam has written extensively about human behavior and mental health. He was a 2010 Nieman fellow at Harvard University, a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, and is the winner of numerous journalism fellowships and awards. His work and commentary have been featured on many public radio and television shows, including NPR's Morning Edition, The Tavis Smiley Show, On The Media, The Diane Rehm Show and The World. More information is at www.vedantam.com
Sonia Shah
USA/Australia
Sonia Shah is an investigative journalist and author of critically acclaimed and prize-winning books on science, human rights, and international politics. Her latest book, "The Fever: How Malaria Has Ruled Humankind for 500,000 Years" (2010), described by the New York Times as "tour-de-force history" and by TIME magazine as "rollicking," is based on five years of original reportage in Cameroon, Malawi, Panama and elsewhere. Her 2006 drug industry exposé, The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients (2006), has been hailed by Publishers Weekly as "meticulously researched and packed with documentary evidence," and as "important [and] powerful" by /The New England Journal of Medicine. A former fellow of The Nation Institute, Shah is the author of Crude: the story of oil (2004). Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Nation, and elsewhere.
Subhra Priyadarshini
India
Subhra Priyadarshini is an award winning science journalist. She runs Nature Publishing Group’s (NPG) India portal Nature India. Subhra was a thoroughbred journalist chasing deadlines to cover politics and sports, fashion and films, crime and natural disasters in the mainstream Indian media for over a dozen years. She finally chose to come back to her first love - science - in 2007 launching the India portal of NPG one year later. She has been a correspondent with major Indian dailies The Times of India, The Indian Express, The Asian Age, The Telegraph, India’s premier news agency Press Trust of India and Down To Earth magazine.
Subhra received the BBC World Service Trust award for her coverage of the ‘vanishing islands of Sunderbans’ in the Bay of Bengal in 2006. She is a regular contributor to BBC Radio’s Hindi science programme ‘Vigyan aur Vikas’ (Science and Development). She has been on the panel of many international conferences on science communication. Subhra won acclaim in India for her coverage of the Orissa super cyclone in 1999 and the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004.
Susannah Elliot
Australia
Dr Susannah Eliott has a PhD in cell biology from Macquarie University, a Graduate Diploma in Journalism from the University of Technology, Sydney and more than 15 years of practical experience in science communication with the science-media nexus as her primary focus.
In 2000, Susannah moved to Stockholm, Sweden as Communications Director for the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), an international network of scientists working on global environmental change. She moved to Adelaide in September 2005 as the inaugural CEO of the Australian Science Media Centre (AusSMC), set up to better inform public debate on the major issues of the day by improving links between the media and the scientific community. Early this year, Susannah was also appointed a Commissioner with the Climate Commission, an independent body set up by the Australian Government to provide a reliable and authoritative source of information on climate change.
Suzanne Corbeil
Canada
Suzanne Corbeil is currently currently engaged as the Director of Global Outreach with the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics - working to build mathematical capacity in developing countries.
She launched Corbeil Consulting Inc, in 2009 after serving as Vice-President of External Relations and Communications at the Canada Foundation for Innovation for over 9 years. She has been a key player in advancing the public agenda in S&T and in building strong relationships with governments and among a variety of partners. Suzanne is committed to advancing science communications, and is the Founding Chair of the Science Media Centre of Canada. She has extensive experience in the social services and not-for-profit sectors through her work and volunteer activities.
T V Padma
India
Padma is the first South Asia regional coordinator for SciDev.Net, and is developing the region's first network of science (including health and environment) reporters, from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
At SciDev.Net she combines her work experience as a science correspondent and in development communication. She started her career as a science correspondent at Press Trust of India (PTI), India's leading wire agency, where she reported extensively from conferences and lab visits.
From 2000 to 2004, she ran development communication projects on public health issues at the South Asia office of Panos Institute, during which time she was a Panos resource person for media training for two UNESCO-funded workshops organized in Chennai and Bangkok by SciDev.Net for on the use of ICTs for reporting on HIV/AIDS.
Padma has also freelanced for All India Radio, New Scientist, Inter Press Service (IPS). She currently contributes from Delhi to Nature Medicine and the green blogs festival for Guardian online.
Tatiana Pichugina
Russia
Tatiana Pichugina is a science journalist living in Moscow. She is a full-time editor of the online news media "Science and technology in Russia - STRF.ru" and "Nanotechnology in Russia" journal. Tatiana studied geology at the Moscow State University, earning her MS in 1991. Then specializing in philosophy of natural sciences, she finished postgraduate course with PhD in 1999. She started her journalistic career at the Informnauka - the first Russian science news agency in 2000, moving to the editor positions in "Lomonosov" and "Vokrug sveta" magazines. Pichugina was a fellow of European Initiative for Communicators of Science (EICOS) at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry (Gettingen, Germany) in 2004. She was a fellow of the WFSJ Amundsen competition and traveled aboard the icebreaker in Canadian Arctic. Tatiana is an active member of the Moscow club of science journalists and has a personal project "Science journalism news".
Thomas Abraham
Hong Kong
Thomas Abraham runs a programme on health journalism and risk communication at the Journalism and Media Studies Centre, the University of Hong Kong. He was a journalist for 25 years before joining Hong Kong University, and his last job as a full time journalist was as Editor of the South China Morning Post, Hong Kong's main English language newspaper. His interest in health and medicine was aroused in 2003,when SARS provided a vivid demonstration of the power that microbes still have over man. In 2009, during the flu pandemic, he worked at the World Health Organization in Geneva as head of news and media relations in the Director General's Office. He has run workshops for health journalists and has published on risk communication in academic journals and has been a consultant for the WHO and other international organizations. He is the author of Twenty First Century Plague: The Story of SARS ( Johns Hopkins University Press 2004) and is currently working on a book on the global efforts to eradicate polio.
Timothy Wells
Switzerland
Dr Timothy Wells joined Medicines for Malaria Venture in October 2007 as the Chief Scientific Officer. He has responsibility for the Research and Development Portfolio, which covers over 50 projects from screening, through to one launched product and two products currently preparing for registration.
Prior to joining MMV, he was Senior Executive Vice President Research at Serono. Prior to this he worked at the Glaxo Institute for Molecular Biology. He has over 180 scientific publications, and several patent applications.
He has a PhD in Chemistry from Imperial College, London for Protein Engineering studies on enzyme catalysis, with Sir Alan Fersht. He was awarded a ScD in Biology from the University of Cambridge for his later work on Cytokine Biology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Tom Levenson
USA
Thomas Levenson is Professor of Science Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and head of Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and the Graduate Program in Science Writing there. He is the author of four books on science and the history of science, most recently Newton and the Counterfeiter (2009) and Einstein in Berlin (2003). He has also produced, directed, written, and or executive produced several science documentaries, most recently the PBS mini-series Origins, (2004 - E. P.) and the "Back to the Beginning" episode in that series (Written, Produced and Directed), for which he received the 2005 National Academies Communication Award. Prior to Origins, Levenson produced the "Dome" episode in the Public Broadcasting Service series Building Big, hosted by David Macaulay, honored by a 2001 George Foster Peabody Award. His short-form writing has appeared in a wide range of newspapers, magazines and digital publications. Levenson earned his bachelor's degree in East Asian Studies from Harvard, and now lives about three miles from the scenes of his undergraduate indiscretions with his wife, Katha Seidman, and the apple of his eye, Henry.
Tom Siegfried
USA
Tom Siegfried is the editor in chief of Science News, a biweekly magazine based in Washington D.C. Previously he was a free-lance science journalist based in Los Angeles; his work appeared in such publications as Science, Nature, and New Scientist, and he was a columnist for the science news website The Why Files. From 1985 to 2004 he was science editor of The Dallas Morning News. He is currently on the board of directors of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing. He is the author of three books: The Bit and the Pendulum, (Wiley, 2000), and Strange Matters (Joseph Henry Press, 2002), and A Beautiful Math (Joseph Henry Press, 2006). He is also a contributor to the National Association of Science Writers' Field Guide for Science Writers.
Twange Kasoma
USA
Twange Kasoma has a Ph.D. in media and society with emphasis in international and development communication from the University of Oregon. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Mass Communications at Emory & Henry College in Virginia. Classes she teaches include: International Communication, Media and Society, and Reporting, Writing and Editing courses. She also offers a summer study abroad course that involves taking students to her home country Zambia where they learn through hands-on experience about journalistic practice in Africa. While in Zambia, she works for the Kasoma Media Foundation, an organization that helps uplift journalistic standards in Zambia through offering workshops and seminars. Kasoma's research has mainly focused on professionalism and ethics among African journalists; and the role of the media in African society.
Valeria Román
Argentina
Valeria Román is a science journalist for Clarín Newspaper in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is vice president for the World Federation of Science Journalists. Argentina's Konex Foundation selected her as one of the 100 best journalists in the country in 2007. She was a 2004-2005 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Mass., USA, and a 2003 medical journalism program fellow at the WHO, Geneva (Switzerland). She has published her first book for lay readers: Darwin 2.0 La teoría de la evolución en el siglo XXI (in Spanish). The book, written with the biologist Luis Cappozzo, is about evolution theory, its updates, and applications. It also reveals the barriers to teaching evolution in Argentina, Chile, and other Latin American countries.
Veronique Morin
Canada
Veronique Morin has 25 years experience as a journalist. She is currently developing a new documentary and series of articles related to Natives' Health under the fellowship of a "CIHR Science journalism award", as well as pursuing other freelance projects, and working as science journalist for the science magazine program «Le Code Chastenay» on the public network Tele-Quebec.
Recently, her original idea, the documentary «Time Bombs», about Canadian veterans who have participated in atomic bomb tests, received the awards of «Best documentary» from the New York International Independent Film and Video festival, «Best Documentary» from the Canadian Association of Broadcasters, and Veronique was nominated for «Best research» at the Gemeaux awards 2008.
Veronique Morin was president of the Canadian Science Writers' Association (CSWA) from 2001-2005. She was elected the first president of the World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ) from 2002-2004. She currently serves as judge on several awards programs recognizing excellence in science journalism.
Vesa Niinikangas
Finland
Vesa Niinikangas is a publisher, trainer, science journalist, and writer. He is active in promoting skills and cooperation in writing, editing, publishing and networking both nationally and internationally. Since 1999 he runs his own publishing company Enostone Ltd.
Vesa has a MA in literary studies, philosophy, education and art history from Jyvaskyla University. He has published four books of poetry and is the editor of three more in addition to being the editor and author of five nonfiction books. He has also published approximately 180 articles dealing with culture and cultural studies and communicating science to society in journals and newspapers.
Currently Vesa is general secretary of the Finnish Association of Science Editors and Journalists, an organisation of which he has been a member since 1986. He is also a board member of the European Union of Science Journalists' Associations and member of the World Federation of Science Journalists' financial committee of the 2011 WCSJ.
Waleed Al-Shobakky
Qatar
Waleed Al-Shobakky is an Egyptian freelance science writer based in Doha, Qatar. His articles have appeared, in Arabic and English, in publications across the Arab world and beyond, including Nature, the New Atlantis (US), AlJazeera.net, Assafir newspaper, SciDev.net, and ScienceBusiness.net. Waleed is a "mentor" in the peer-to-peer program of the World Federation of Science Journalist and a founding member of the Arab Association
William Kearney
USA
William Kearney is director of media relations at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. In 15 years there he has led media dissemination efforts for hundreds of science, technology, and health policy reports from the NAS and its sister organizations: the National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, and National Research Council. He also directs international science communication efforts, including for the African Science Academy Development Initiative. And in 2010 he was assigned to the InterAcademy Council -- an Amsterdam-based organization of the world's science academies -- for its U.N.-sponsored review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In that role, he advised the IAC review committee on the communication of climate change science and managed media relations for its public meetings and release of its report at a U.N. press conference. He has a bachelor's degree in history and political science from the University of Massachusetts at Boston.
William Odinga Balikuddembe
Uganda
William Odinga Balikuddembe has a decade of experience in Science Journalism. He is the Chairman of the Uganda Science Journalists Association (USJA) and Editor in Chief of S&T Magazine.
He writes for newspapers and makes documentary films with local and international companies.
Prior to that, he was Features Editor for The Sunrise weekly between 2004 and 2006.
He was a Scenario Researcher and Writer for FAO-NILE (2006 -2008), a project of the U.N Food and Agriculture Organization, and he is co-author of “Food for Thought”: Demand Scenarios for Agricultural Produce in the Nile Basin for 2030.
In 2004 he was awarded Best Print Media Reporter on Water and Sanitation by the African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW).
He was Chairman of the Environmental Journalist Association of Uganda (EJAU) for three years and Board Member of the Uganda Nile Discourse Forum (UNDF) for seven years.
William Skane
USA
William Skane is Executive Director for News & Public Information at the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council, Institute of Medicine, and National Academy of Engineering in Washington, DC. He is responsible for the Academies' strategic and crisis communications, and oversees media and public relations outreach. Prior to joining the USNAS in 2002, he spent 20 years as a producer at CBS News in Washington and New York, first as national medical producer for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather, later at CBS Sunday Morning with Charles Kuralt. Skane began his journalism career as science reporter and producer at San Francisco's public television station KQED. His television journalism honors include three Emmy awards, two Peabody awards, and awards from Sigma Delta Chi, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the White House Press Photographers Association. Skane received his BA in Economics from Stanford University and Masters degree in Journalism from the University of California at Berkeley.
Wilson da Silva
Australia
Wilson da Silva is the editor-in-chief of COSMOS, Australia's #1 science magazine. A former science reporter for ABC TV in Australia, he's been a foreign correspondent for Reuters, a staff journalist on The Sydney Morning Herald, a technology writer for The Age in Melbourne, and served as a correspondent for Britain's New Scientist and as science editor of ABC Online. One of the founders of COSMOS, he's the winner of 27 awards, including Australia's highest film honour for documentary film-making, the AFI Award for Best Documentary, and two Editor of the Year trophies for his work on COSMOS. The magazine itself has twice won Magazine of the Year, among the 35 local and international awards it has collected. Wilson is a former president of the World Federation of Science Journalists and is scheduled to fly into space with Virgin Galactic in 2012.
Wolfgang Goede
Germany
Wolfgang C. Goede of Munich, Germany, is Senior Editor with the popular science magazine P.M. He is a board member of the German Association of Science Writers (TELI) and TELI's representative at the European Union of Science Writers' Associations (EUSJA). Founded in 1929, TELI is the only German journalists' association which has looked into its Nazi history.
Ylann Schemm
The Netherlands
Ylann Schemm is part of Elsevier's external communications team, focusing on corporate responsibility and partnerships. She manages two Elsevier Foundation programs: New Scholars which supports projects to expand the participation of women in science, health and technology and Innovative Libraries in Developing Countries with capacity-building projects in science, technology and medicine -- through training, education; infrastructure digitization and preservation of information. She is an active member of the Research4Life communications team for a unique UN-pan publisher partnership to provide free or low cost access to researchers in the developing world. Since 2006, Ylann has worked closely with nonprofit Sense About Science to promote an understanding of peer review among journalists, policymakers and the public and to engage and inspire early career researchers to become ambassadors of good science.
Yves Sciama
France
Yves Sciama is a French science journalist and author specialized in environment, with a focus on climate issues. He writes on a regular basis in the leading French science magazines ("Science et Vie", "La Recherche") but also occasionally contributes to national daily newspapers such as "Libération". He is the author of several books, including "Développement durable, avenirs incertains" ("Sustainable development, uncertain futures"), and "Changement Climatique, une Nouvelle Ere sur la Terre" ("Climate Change, a new era for earth"). He was awarded in 2010 the Grand Prix Varenne de l'Information Scientifique (Varenne Prize for Scientific Information - the main French science journalism prize).
Yves is particularly interested in the numerous ways by which science and society influence each other, and by the complex link between our knowledge and our beliefs.