Elizabeth Gibney

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

Lizzie Gibney
Born
Elizabeth Gibney
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA)
Imperial College London (MSc)
Employer(s)Nature
Times Higher Education
Research Fortnight
Known forScience Journalism
Websitetwitter.com/lizziegibney

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 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 appoints Elizabeth Gibney as physics reporter - ResponseSource". ResponseSource. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  8. nature video (28 February 2018), Signals from the cosmic dawn: A three minute guide, retrieved 2 March 2018
  9. Jasiek. "Jasiek | Landing on a comet". jasiek.co.uk. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  10. nature video (3 September 2014), Laniakea: Our home supercluster, retrieved 2 March 2018
  11. Robins, Sallie. "Winners Announced in the 2015 Science Journalism Awards | News | News and Events | Association of British Science Writers (ABSW)". www.absw.org.uk. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
  12. "Stories by Elizabeth Gibney". Scientific American. Retrieved 2 March 2018.
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