Rowan Hooper

Rowan Hooper is Managing Editor of New Scientist magazine where he has spent more than ten years writing about all aspects of science. He has a PhD in evolutionary biology and worked as a biologist in Japan for five years before joining the Japan Times newspaper in Tokyo and later taking up a fellowship at Trinity College Dublin. Two collections of his long-running column for the paper have been published in Japan and his work has also appeared in The Economist Guardian Wired and the Washington Post. He lives in London with his partner and two daughters.
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