About
Michael is a science journalist based in Washington, D.C., and former staff science writer at National Geographic. Michael’s work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Science, Atlas Obscura, NiemanLab, Quanta Magazine, Scientific American, National Geographic Traveler, MIT Technology Review, NOVA Next, and the American Institute of Physics’s Inside Science News Service. He is the 2022 recipient of the American Astronomical Society’s Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award and the co-recipient of a 2023 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award.
Michael has a master’s degree in science writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree in ecology and evolutionary biology from Vanderbilt University. In his spare time, he enjoys singing, magic, and a good book. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his family.