Anjana Ahuja
Science journalist and columnist
Anjana Ahuja ( अंजना आहूजा ) is a British science journalist and a former columnist for The Times. She is now a contributing writer at the Financial Times. She also contributes to The Daily Telegraph, Prospect, New Scientist and the Radio Times. She was named Best Science Commentator at the 2013 Comment Awards.
Early life and education
Anjana Ahuja was born in London to a Punjabi Hindu family and educated at a comprehensive school in Essex. Ahuja studied physics at Imperial College London, and then took a PhD in space physics during which she worked on data about the Sun's magnetic field from the Ulysses probe.
Career
After receiving her PhD in 1994, Ahuja was hired by The Times as a graduate trainee journalist. She wrote the weekly Science Notebook column in The Times, and was also a regular feature writer. Her articles have twice been nominated for the Association of British Science Writers awards, and won the 1998 EMMA award for Best Print Journalism. Her column covered all areas of science, medicine and technology, and although her articles can be defensive of properly-tested fringe science, she has often spoken out against pseudoscience and in favour of freedom of research data.
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