Kristin Ozelli.

Kristin Ozelli

Executive editor
The Transmitter

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Kristin Ozelli oversees day-to-day operations, manages the editorial team and steers the production of articles, newsletters and multimedia content. She joined the Simons Foundation in 2017 as features editor of Spectrum. Previously, she was editorial director, online, and a senior editor at Scientific American, and a senior editor at Scientific American MIND. She has also written a book about Jupiter’s moons and volunteered at the Natural History Museum in London, assisting the curator of fossil cephalopods.

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Spectrum

Spotted around the web: INSAR; cerebellar gene expression; pangenome

By Jill Adams, Giorgia Guglielmi, Nicholette Zeliadt, Kristin Ozelli
12 May 2023 | 4 min read
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Beyond the bench: Mastering meaningful movement with Karen Chenausky

By Kristin Ozelli
21 October 2022 | 8 min read
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Spectrum

Spotted around the web: Interpersonal synchrony, single-nucleotide polymorphisms, CRISPR at 10

By Jill Adams, Kristin Ozelli
1 July 2022 | 3 min read

Education

  • M.A. in journalism, New York University
  • B.S. in English, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • B.S. in mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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