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Elizabeth Gibney

Elizabeth Gibney

Science journalist


Elizabeth Gibney is a senior physics reporter at Nature.[1] She has written for Scientific American, BBC and CERN.

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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

  1. 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.
  2. "About the Editors | Nature". www.nature.com. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  3. Barney, Dave. "OUTREACH". CERN Document Server.
  4. Meikle, James (14 November 2014). "Rosetta scientist Dr Matt Taylor apologises for 'offensive' shirt". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  5. "Elizabeth Gibney". Times Higher Education (THE). 1 April 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  6. "Research Intelligence - Higgsteria: it's only the beginning". Times Higher Education (THE). 19 July 2012. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  7. nature video (28 February 2018), Signals from the cosmic dawn: A three minute guide, retrieved 2 March 2018
  8. Jasiek. "Jasiek | Landing on a comet". jasiek.co.uk. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  9. nature video (3 September 2014), Laniakea: Our home supercluster, retrieved 2 March 2018
  10. "Stories by Elizabeth Gibney". Scientific American. Retrieved 2 March 2018.

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