Jane Qiu is an award-winning science journalist from Beijing, regularly contributing to publications such as Nature, Science, Scientific American, and The Economist. In the 2017-2018 academic year, she is a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A recipient of many fellowships and travel grants from prestigious institutions like the Pulitzer Center, EurekAlert, and the European Geosciences Union, Qiu has covered wide-ranging topics from far-flung corners of the world — including the Arctic, the Antarctic, and the peaks of the Himalayas. Her writings have won awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association of British Science Writers, the South Asian Journalists Association, and the Asia Environmental Journalism Awards.