Position/Organization:

Blog Editor, Scientific American

Bora Zivkovic is the Blog Editor at The Scientific American. Born in Belgrade, Serbia (then Yugoslavia) he majored in biochemistry and molecular biology in high school, trained horses and studied veterinary medicine at University of Belgrade. Upon arrival in the USA, Bora did research on circadian rhythms in Japanese quail at North Carolina State University. Together with Anton Zuiker, he organizes the popular annual ScienceOnline conferences in Triangle region of North Carolina.

He is the series editor of Open Laboratory, the annual anthology of the best science writing on the Web. Mr. Zivkovic lives out in the country halfway between Chapel Hill and Pittsboro NC and this is his second telecommuting job (the previous one being with Public Library of Science), using the power of Internet to his advantage: being connected to the world while enjoying the natural surroundings. He writes at A Blog Around The Clock and tweets as @BoraZ.