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About Davide Castelvecchi
I am the physical sciences writer at Science News, a weekly magazine available by subscription or on the Web. My beat includes physics, technology, mathematics, materials science, and chemistry.
Before I started at Science News in March 2007, I was a Web editor and science writer at the American Institute of Physics, as well as a freelance magazine writer.
In addition to physics and technology, have written about astronomy and cosmology; mathematics; microbiology and synthetic biology; the earth sciences; cognitive science; archaeology; and the science of art conservation.
Before becoming a science writer I was a mathematician. My research field was topology and geometry (specifically, noncommutative measure theory and foliated dynamical systems, if this means anything to you). I studied math at the University of Rome I and at Stanford University, done research at the University of Paris at Orsay, and taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara and at the University of Rome II.
When I left the academic career, I went back to school to study science writing at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I have done writing internships at the daily Santa Cruz Sentinel, at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and at Physical Review Focus, an online news service by the American Physical Society.
I live in Washington, D.C.
Links related to my writing:
In January 2008 I was a guest lecturer for the Science Writing for Scientists and Engineers class taught by Mary Spiro at Johns Hopkins University’s Institute for NanoBioTechnology.
Edge.org featured my August 12, 2006 New Scientist cover story on loop quantum gravity. More precisely, it featured Lee Smolin, who was the main source for it.
The Australian edition of Sky & Telescope magazine, where my article on black holes was the cover story for the April 2006 issue.
Chance of stock crash guided by laws of physics, by Bill Barnhart
–The Chicago Tribune, March 3, 2006.
A business columnist quoted me on research I had written about (see Stock Market Criticality) in Physics News Update.
BREAKTHROUGH OF THE YEAR: The Runners-Up
– from Science, 28 October 2004 (requires access)
A surprising result from an experiment on the structure of water was named a top-10 breakthrough of the year 2004 by Science magazine. I wrote Stanford’s press release (here as reprinted in the Stanford Report ) during my internship at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Laboratory.
Putting pen to paper, by Virginia Gewin
– from Nature, 18 November 2004
I was quoted by a colleague in this article about the science writing profession
“symmetry” Magazine Launched by Fermilab and SLAC
– from Fermilab Today, October 28 2004
I worked for symmetry during its gestation (while I was at SLAC) and first three issues (at Fermilab). This article is accompanied by a picture of us Fermilab symmetrists.
Some links to my past Web work:
DBIS TV news
I used to be Web editor and one of the content writers for this online companion to DBIS, AIP’s syndicated TV news service.
At AIP, I also was the Web editor of Physics News Update and Physics News Graphics.
