Journalist covering how people use science, markets & serendipity to test new ideas. Write for Science Magazine, Technology Review, The Economist & others. I’m based in Spain and the United Kingdom and can be reached on +34 681233227, +44 7931459362, or by email at lucas.laursen@gmail.com.
I’ve been a full-time freelance journalist since 2007, with short breaks to intern at Nature and play archaeologist. Before that I studied astrophysics at Harvard and spent a few summers writing for the Let’s Go travel guidebooks.
Along the way I’ve:
- Crossed the Indian Ocean aboard a Spanish oceanographic vessel for Nature.
- Navigated Tokyo traffic in an electric taxi for IEEE Spectrum Magazine.
- Followed climate scientists into Austrian ice caves for Science and EARTH Magazine.
- Ventured into the ash cloud of the Eyjafjallajokull volcano in Iceland for Science, Discover and the Financial Times Weekend Magazine.
…and written a LinkedIn profile.
