Helen Pearson

Helen Pearson is an award-winning science journalist for Nature and an honorary professor at University College London. She was named European Science Journalist of the Year 2025. She is a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT from 2026-27. Her first book, 'The Life Project', was a book of the year for The Economist and was longlisted for the Orwell Prize. Her second book, 'Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works', was published in April and named a Financial Times best summer book 2026.