Biography

Rodrigo Pérez Ortega is an award-winning bilingual journalist at Science magazine covering science, medicine, health, policy, diversity and academia. He holds a MS in Science Communication from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He lives in Mexico City and his work has also appeared in The New York Times, Nature, Quanta, Science News, and El País, among others. He’s a 2025-2026 Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.