Position/Organization: news editor, online, Scientific American; contributor, CJR.org

Robin Lloyd started working in online journalism in 1999 at CNN.com after receiving a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the 1998 to 1999 academic year. She was senior science editor for SPACE.com from 1999 to 2001, and returned to the company as senior editor for LiveScience.com and SPACE.com from 2007 to 2009. She has additional experience in print journalism (Pasadena Star-News), wire journalism (City News Service of Los Angeles), and institutional science writing (American Museum of Natural History). She has a PhD in sociology from the University of California.