Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at
Scientific American for 17 years and has covered sustainability issues, including climate, weather, environment, energy, food, water, biodiversity, population, and more. He assigns and edits feature articles, commentaries and news by journalists and scientists and also writes in those formats. He edits History, the magazine's department looking at science advances throughout time. He was founding managing editor of two spinoff magazines:
Scientific American Mind and
Scientific American Earth 3.0. His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, "
What Happens to Your Body after You Die?, has more than 12 million views on YouTube. Fischetti has written freelance articles for the
New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Fast Company, and many others. He co-authored the book
Weaving the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-authored
The New Killer Diseases with microbiologist Elinor Levy. Fischetti is a former managing editor of
IEEE Spectrum Magazine and of
Family Business Magazine. He has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2021 he received the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on the Earth and space sciences. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN, the History Channel, NPR News and many news radio stations. Follow Fischetti on X (formerly Twitter)
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