Biography
Elizabeth Finkel AM is a former biochemist who switched from research to telling the stories of other scientists. She completed a PhD in biochemistry at Melbourne University in 1982, followed by postdoctoral experience at the University of California in San Francisco, studying a gene that inscribes a pattern onto the blank canvas of the fruit fly egg. Her work was published in Nature magazine. Returning to Melbourne in 1988, she left research for journalism, making regular contributions to American magazine Science and The Age, and authored two books. From 2013-2018, she was editor-in-chief of Cosmos Magazine, a science publication she co-founded in 2005.
