Science Writer, London, UK
John Whitfield is the opinion editor at Research Professional News. A journalist specialising in science, his writing has appeared in Nature, The London Review of Books and Slate, among others. He is the author of In the Beat of a Heart: Life, Energy and the Unity of Nature (2006), People Will Talk: The Hidden Power of Reputation (2011) and Lost Animals: The Story of Extinct, Endangered and Rediscovered Species (2020). He lives in London, UK.