Helen Thomson

Helen Thomson is head of features, and specialises in life sciences, health and biotech. She has a BSc in Neuroscience from the University of Bristol and an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College, London. She has worked as a journalist and editor at New Scientist both as staff and as a consultant since 2007. She has also worked as a freelance journalist, publishing articles in Nature, the BBC, and the Guardian, among others. She has also written book reviews for the New York Times. In 2021, she was a finalist at the Medical Journalist Awards for her New Scientist article on how to give your covid-19 vaccine a boost. Helen's first book Unthinkable: An Extraordinary Journey Through The World's Strangest Brains was an Amazon bestseller, the NIH's 2019 Big Read, and The Times Science Book of the Year. She has also written a second book for New Scientist called This Book Could Fix Your Life.