Science Editor, Smithsonian Magazine, Washington, USA
Laura Helmuth is the science editor for Smithsonian
Magazine, a general-interest monthly magazine with
about 8 million readers. She previously served as
an editor for Science's news department, where she
handled stories about aging, neuroscience, molecular
biology, and other life sciences. She currently
writes and edits as a freelancer for SAGE-KE, the
Science of Aging Knowledge Environment produced
by the American Association for the Advancement
of Science. Helmuth earned a Ph.D. in cognitive
neuroscience in 1997 at the University of California,
Berkeley. She conducted part of her dissertation
research in Tübingen, Germany, on a DAAD fellowship. |
