| Nadia Meghann Drake | |
| Birth Date: | 6 July 1980 |
| Education: | Cornell University (AB, PhD) University of California, Santa Cruz (MS) |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | Science journalist |
| Parents: | Frank Drake (father) |
Nadia Drake (born July 6, 1980) is an American science journalist and is the interim Physics Editor at Quanta Magazine.[1] Previously, she was a contributing writer at National Geographic.
By 2002 Drake had earned an A.B. in biology, psychology, and dance at Cornell University,
She returned to Cornell for her Ph.D. in genetics and developmental biology in 2009. Her Ph.D. thesis is entitled Phenotypic consequences of imprinting perturbations at Rasgrf1 in mouse.[2]
In 2011 she graduated from the University of California's Science Communication program at the Santa Cruz campus, with a Master of Science degree.
Drake worked in a clinical genetics lab at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine while she was studying her Ph.D. in genetics.[3]
During her residence at the UCSC's SciCom program, she was a reporting intern for the Santa Cruz Sentinel, San Jose's The Mercury News, and Nature.
Afterwards she moved to Washington, D.C. for an internship at Science News, which turned into a job as the magazine's astronomy reporter.
Drake then returned to the San Francisco Bay Area for a science reporting job at WIRED.
She has been a freelance contributor to The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, WIRED, and other publications.
Drake is the author of Little Book of Wonders: Celebrating the Gifts of the Natural World (National Geographic Books, 2016).
Drake is daughter of SETI's pioneer Frank Drake and Amahl Drake (née Shakhashiri).[6]