Contributor

Mariette DiChristina

Editor in Chief and Senior Vice President of Scientific American

Mariette DiChristina, editor in chief and senior vice president, oversees Scientific American, ScientificAmerican.com, Scientific American Mind and all newsstand special editions. She is the eighth person and first female to assume the top post since Scientific American's founding in 1845. Under her leadership, the magazine received a 2011 National Magazine Award for General Excellence. She is a visiting scholar in the graduate Science, Health and Environmental Reporting program at New York University, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and past president of the National Association of Science Writers.