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

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

  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. ^ a b "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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