Jen Pinkowski is an experienced science journalist and writer who is driven by one thing above all else: curiosity. A generalist within science writing, she crafts compelling stories across a broad range of disciplines, from microbiology to paleogenetics, artifacts to atoms, viruses to sloths. Equally diverse in her geographic range, she has filed from some 40 countries about the work researchers are doing to explore, explain, and enlarge our world.
Her stories have appeared in the New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American, Washington Post, Undark, Atlas Obscura, Mental Floss, Outside, Time, Archaeology and many other publications. Some of her reporting has been supported by fellowships and grants, including from the National Press Foundation and the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.
She is also a senior writer for elite institutions such as The Rockefeller University and Yale University and a scicomm consultant for life-sciences companies with global impact.
Jen earned her master’s degree in journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and her bachelor’s degree in fiction writing and photography at Sarah Lawrence College. A former Berliner and forever New Yorker, Jen lives in Brooklyn but always has one foot out the door, ready for the next adventure.