Laura Helmuth

Laura Helmuth
Helmuth in December 2022
Education	Eckerd College (BS) University of California, Berkeley (PhD) University of California, Santa Cruz
Occupation	Editor in Chief
Employer	Scientific American magazine
Board member of	Society for Science and the Public, High Country News, Geological Society of Washington

Laura Lee Helmuth is an American science journalist and the editor in chief of Scientific American. She was formerly the Health and Science editor at The Washington Post. From 2016 to 2018, she served as the president of the National Association of Science Writers.