Christopher Mims is a technology columnist at The Wall Street Journal,^[1] which he joined in 2014.^[2] Previously, he was a science and technology correspondent and editor for Quartz. He has been an editor at Scientific American, Technology Review, Smithsonian and Grist. He was also a producer at Small Mammal, where he helped director John Pavlus produce science videos for Slate, Popular Science, and Nature. He received a bachelor's degree in neuroscience and behavioral biology from Emory University in 2001.^[2]

Mims was a contributing editor at MIT Technology Review between 2011 and 2012.^[3] Before that, he blogged about the converging crises of the 21st century for Grist. He has also reported for Wired and Scientific American, and worked on various projects for the BBC, The Atlantic, and Smithsonian.