Eliza Strickland is an associate editor for the international technology magazine IEEE Spectrum. Assigned the impossible beat of covering technology developments across all of Asia, she has made frequent trips abroad to report on a variety of stories. Most notably, Strickland produced a 20-page special report on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and its impact on energy policy, which helped IEEE Spectrum win a 2012 National Magazine Award for general excellence. In 2013 she received an Abe Fellowship for Journalists from the Social Science Research Council, and spent six weeks in Japan reporting on the fallout from the Fukushima crisis.

For her secondary beat of biomedical engineering, Strickland covers the technologies enabling personalized medicine, such as mobile health tools, genome sequencing machines, and the implantable devices that will eventually turn us all into happy cyborgs. Her current passion is reporting on the neuro-modulation techniques that researchers are using to tweak patients’ movements, moods, and memories.