Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee is an award-winning writer and a regular contributor to National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker and other popular publications. Yudhijit is the author of the The New York Times bestselling nonfiction thriller - The Spy Who Couldn't Spell.[1][6]
Education
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee bagged his Bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and his from Ohio State University where he studied Journalism.
Career
Yudhijit Bhattacharjee has been a staff writer at Science since 2003. Yudhijit Bhattacharjee spent 26 years of his life in India.
In his illustrious writing career, he has written stories on different topics related to research and policy, such as the fight over teaching evolution in United States, classrooms and the Neuroscience of time perception.
Some of his writings has profiled scientists with different interests and backgrounds, such as an astrophysicist, a fisherman-scientist and many others.
In 2008, his story on brain trauma caused by explosions on the battlefield won an award for best research writing from the National Mental Health Association.
His work has appeared in popular online and print media including but not limited to: The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Wired, and Discover.
His work has been anthologized in the The Best American Science and Nature Writing series.
Yudhijit now spends most of his time covering astronomy, along with science and security and a few other areas of science policy.
Personal
He lives in a suburb of Washington, D.C, with his wife, his two children and a big red dog.[5]