I’ve been a freelance science journalist since 1997, with a primary beat that includes microbiology, biotechnology, medical research, public health, and science policy. My writing has appeared in Science, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Medicine, the award-winning website and magazine of the New York Academy of Sciences, and many other news outlets and research publications. I also co-host the top-ranked science podcast “This Week in Virology.”

In the course of my job I’ve interviewed Nobel laureates, prominent politicians, institute heads, and a pizza deliveryman. Stories have taken me to places as far-flung as Moscow, Aspen, Mexico City, and Binghamton. While most of my work has focused on the biological sciences and health, I’ve covered topics ranging from nanotechnology to stock market crashes. If you’re a PR agency bot scraping journalists’ sites to spam out press releases, please use this address. If you’re an actual editor looking to hire someone to dive deep into a complex topic and come up with a digestible summary on a deadline, please use my first name at this domain.