Science journalist
Elizabeth Gibney is a senior physics reporter at Nature .[ 1] She has written for Scientific American , BBC and CERN .
Education
Gibney studied the Natural Sciences Tripos at the University of Cambridge .[ 2] She completed a Master of Science (MSc) postgraduate degree in Science Communication at Imperial College London .[ 2]
Career
Gibney worked for Research Fortnight . Gibney worked in the communications team for the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at CERN .[ 3] She has been described as "feminist science journalist".[ 4] She worked at Times Higher Education between 2012 and 2013.[ 5] She dubbed the excitement surrounding particle physics after detection of the Higgs boson as Higgsteria .[ 6]
Gibney joined Nature in 2013 and is now[when? ] senior physics reporter.[ 7] Gibney produces 3-minute guides to new areas of research.[ 8] In 2014, she won the Malofiej Medal for her infographics Landing on a comet .[ 9] in 2015, she was highly commended at the Science Journalism Awards for her short video "Laniakea: Our home supercluster".[ 10] [ 11]
She has written for Scientific American , The Sunday Times , BBC News and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).[ 12]
References
^ Gibney, Elizabeth ; Callaway, Ewen; Cyranoski, David; Gaind, Nisha; Tollefson, Jeff; Courtland, Rachel; Law, Yao-Hua; Maher, Brendan; Else, Holly; Castelvecchi, Davide (2018). "Ten people who mattered this year" . Nature . 564 (7736): 325–335. doi :10.1038/d41586-018-07683-5 . PMID 30563976 .
^ a b "About the Editors | Nature" . www.nature.com . Retrieved 2 March 2018 .
^ Barney, Dave. "OUTREACH" . CERN Document Server .
^ Meikle, James (14 November 2014). "Rosetta scientist Dr Matt Taylor apologises for 'offensive' shirt" . The Guardian . Retrieved 2 March 2018 .
^ "Elizabeth Gibney" . Times Higher Education (THE) . 1 April 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2018 .
^ "Research Intelligence - Higgsteria: it's only the beginning" . Times Higher Education (THE) . 19 July 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2018 .
^ "Nature appoints Elizabeth Gibney as physics reporter - ResponseSource" . ResponseSource . Retrieved 2 March 2018 .
^ nature video (28 February 2018), Signals from the cosmic dawn: A three minute guide , retrieved 2 March 2018
^ Jasiek. "Jasiek | Landing on a comet" . jasiek.co.uk . Retrieved 2 March 2018 .
^ nature video (3 September 2014), Laniakea: Our home supercluster , retrieved 2 March 2018
^ Robins, Sallie. "Winners Announced in the 2015 Science Journalism Awards | News | News and Events | Association of British Science Writers (ABSW)" . www.absw.org.uk . Archived from the original on 23 October 2017. Retrieved 2 March 2018 .
^ "Stories by Elizabeth Gibney" . Scientific American . Retrieved 2 March 2018 .