Email: mdichristina@sciam.com

Mariette DiChristina, who teaches advanced science writing in the Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program, joined Scientific American as executive editor in April 2001. She also runs the bimonthly Scientific American Mind and manages Scientific American’s quarterly newsstand special editions. Previously, she was executive editor of Popular Science, where she worked for nearly 14 years. Her writing and editing about space topics helped garner Popular Science the Space Foundation’s 2001 Douglas S. Morrow Public Outreach Award. Earlier, she was a reporter for the Gannett-Westchester Newspapers (now the Journal News) and a stringer for papers in New York and Massachusetts. In 2005 she was Science Writer in Residence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her chapter on science editing appears in A Field Guide for Science Writers (Oxford University Press, 2005). DiChristina is an officer on the board of the National Association of Science Writers, and former chair of Science Writers in New York. She holds a B.S. in magazine journalism from Boston University.