Katherine J. Wu is a staff writer for The Atlantic, where she covers science.

She previously served as a science reporter for The New York Times, a staff writer for NOVA Next, and an early career fellow at the Open Notebook. She was also a AAAS Mass Media Fellow at Smithsonian magazine and a production editor at Undark.

In 2018, she earned a Ph.D. in microbiology and immunobiology from Harvard University. She is the 2020 winner of the Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for Young Science Journalists.