Biography:

Elizabeth Finkel spent five years at the University of California, San Francisco, studying the genes that transform a mushy egg into a shapely embryo. For the last 20 years she has been a science writer for scientific and lay audiences including serving as a correspondent for the American magazine Science and an associate editor for Cosmos magazine, a popular science magazine that she cofounded. In June 2013 she was appointed the next Cosmos Editor in Chief. She has published two books: “Stem Cells: Controversy at the Frontiers of Science” in 2005, which won the Queensland premier’s Literary award and “The Genome Generation” in 2012.

Presentations:

• Social media in science – hero or villain?