Robin Lloyd is Scientific American's news editor. Her past job experience includes working as a senior editor for LiveScience.com and SPACE.com, a science writer at the American Museum of Natural History, and a reporter at CNN.com, the Pasadena Star-News and City News Service in Los Angeles. She has a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and received a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the 1998-1999 academic year. She currently serves on the board of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing.