Alison joined EJR Quartz in 2019 after spending 25 years in journalism. She is a former science correspondent on The Economist, where she worked for seven years, and she was most recently European bureau chief at Nature, the world’s most authoritative science journal.
Alison has a degree in physics from Imperial College London and a masters degree in science communication from the same institution. Just for fun, she gained another degree in politics, philosophy and history from Birkbeck College, London, and after graduation she served as a governor for four years.