Tim De Chant is the senior digital editor at NOVA, where he’s the founding editor of NOVA Next, and a lecturer in MIT’s graduate program in science Writing. He has also written for Wired, the Chicago Tribune, and Ars Technica, among others, and he blogs at Per Square Mile. Tim was selected as a AAAS Mass Media Fellow in 2008, and before turning to science journalism, he received his Ph.D. in landscape ecology.