Charles Q. Choi is a science reporter who has written for Scientific American, the New York Times, Wired, Science, Nature, the San Diego Union-Tribune, Newsday, Popular Science,_ and National Geographic News, among others. For his work, he has hunted for mammoth DNA in Yukon, faced gunmen in Guatemala, entered the sarcophagus housing radioactive ruins in Chernobyl and looked for mammal fossils in Wyoming based on the guidance from an artificial intelligence.

In his spare time, Charles has traveled to all seven continents, including scaling the side of an iceberg in Antarctica, investigating mummies from Siberia, snorkeling in the Galapagos, excavating ancient Maya ruins in Belize, climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, camping in the Outback, and avoiding thieves near Shaolin Temple.

Charles earned his masters degree at the Missouri School of Journalism, the first journalism program founded in the world. While there, Charles interviewed convicts on death row and received a Sam Bronstein Prize in Journalism in 2000.

Charles has had his work featured in a Dave Barry column and by the Science Museum of London. He has been an invited speaker at New York University, the American Museum of Natural History, Rutgers University, the Asian American Journalists Association, and the College Media Association. He has also taught science writing as adjunct faculty at New College of Florida.