Hello! I am Hannah Waters, an award-winning science journalist currently working full-time as a senior editor at Quanta Magazine. I oversee the magazine's biology section, assigning and editing news and features about new ideas and discoveries about how life works, including evolutionary biology, molecular biology, biophysics, climate science, cell biology, neuroscience, and more.
I've worked in science and environmental journalism since 2011, and am an experienced reporter, editor, fact checker, and web producer comfortable in digital and print. I've worked at Quanta Magazine since August 2023. From 2016 through 2023 I worked as an editor at Audubon magazine, most recently as a senior editor covering climate change. In my previous life as a freelancer, my clients included Scientific American, Wirecutter, Audubon, Quanta Magazine, Hakai Magazine, Slate, Smithonian, National Geographic, Bitch, and others. Other influential employment includes the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, UPenn Perelman School of Medicine, Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge, FinestKind Scenic Cruises in Ogunquit, Maine, and The Watershed Institute in Pennington, NJ. I graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, with a B.A. in biology and a language concentration in Latin.
I live in Brooklyn. If you'd like to collaborate on a project, you can reach me by email at hwaters [at] quantamagazine [dot] org or on Bluesky or LinkedIn.
Last updated: July 22, 2026
