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Currently:
I write news and features about science in Science, Nature, Science Careers, Nature Biotechnology and Nature Medicine.
I’ve also written about science for broader audiences in the Financial Times Weekend Magazine, New Scientist, Discover Magazine, and Scientific American.
My interests in the outdoors and travel occasionally find their way into print, and I harbor fantasies of being a bush pilot when I grow up.
Contact:
I am based in Spain and the United Kingdom and can be reached on +34 681233227, +44 7931459362, or by email at lucas.laursen (at) gmail.com.
Background:
I went freelance with the support of a Henry Russell Shaw Fellowship after graduating from Harvard University with a degree in astronomy and astrophysics. Along the way I’ve dabbled with vagrancy in the Scottish Highlands, given guided punt tours on the River Cam, worked with an internet startup, and taken part in drug studies. I don’t recommend the latter.
I spent the spring of 2009 on a reporting internship with Nature in London, where I wrote daily news and blogs, recorded podcasts, wrote a feature story, and even a Twitter feed commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, for which a radio journalist at BBC5 interviewed me. Summaries here.
In spring of 2010 I followed scientists to the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull, narrowly escaping its first eruption by arriving too late. Luckily for me and my editors, a larger eruption soon followed. Stories here.
Another reporting trip took me to Austria, where I explored caves with ice formations in the company of climate scientists and geophysicists. Stories and photos here.
My longest reporting trip by far was across the Indian Ocean in an oceanographic research vessel. Stories and photos here.
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