Julianna Photopoulos
Julianna Photopoulos is a freelance science journalist, who writes for various outlets including New Scientist, Nature, SciDev.Net, and Horizon magazine, among others. She has also produced and presented the award-winning radio programme Vértice in Mexico and has been involved in numerous film productions for the BBC Natural History Unit and The Royal Institution of Great Britain. In 2018, she was the first science journalist from the Balkans (Greece) to have been awarded the EurekAlert! Fellowships for International Science Reporters and was a nominee for the European Writer of the Year Award. Julianna holds a BSc in Biology from the University of Crete, an MRes in Molecular Genetics from the University of Barcelona and an MSc in Science Communication from the University of the West of England. In 2019, she completed the Summer Investigative Reporting Course under the prestigious Stavros Niarchos Foundation fellowship at Columbia University, USA.-
How the coronavirus pandemic is changing us
These stressful and unprecedented circumstances we are living in due to the current pandemic have a deep internal effect on us, which is altering who we are as individuals, our relationships with others, and how we perceive our place in society. Even our brain's hippocampus may have shrunk — but are...
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A scientist’s opinion: Interview with Professor Arie Kruglanski about our need for cognitive closure during COVID-19
Interview with Arie Kruglanski, Distinguished Professor of Psychology at the University of Maryland, and co-founder and senior investigator at the National Center for the Study of Terrorism and the Response to Terrorism (START). How do our personal impressions, experiences and attitudes, related...