Eric Hand, Washington

  • Eric fell in love with journalism late, after an early start teaching at a London boysÂ’ school and programming car navigation software. He studied civil engineering at Princeton University, and later picked up masterÂ’s degrees in geography and geophysics from the University of Cambridge and Stanford University. He joined Nature in 2007 after writing for the Oregonian, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His reporting has ranged from crime in Ozark hills to biotechnology in east Africa. He maintains an outsize interest in Scrabble, which he feels is the perfect game.

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