12 Facts About Carl Zimmer

Carl Zimmer was born on 1966 and is an American popular science writer, blogger, columnist, and journalist who specializes in the topics of evolution, parasites, and heredity.

Carl Zimmer is a fellow at Yale University's Morse College and adjunct professor of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University.

Carl Zimmer describes his journalistic beat as "life" or "what it means to be alive".

Carl Zimmer is the only science writer to have a species of tapeworm named after him.

Carl Zimmer left Discover after ten years to focus on books and other projects.

Carl Zimmer writes a weekly column called "Matter" in The New York Times.

Carl Zimmer has given lectures at universities, medical schools, and museums.

In 2009, Carl Zimmer was the keynote speaker at Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism.

Carl Zimmer has twice been a spotlight speaker at the Aspen Ideas Festival, in 2017 and 2018.

Carl Zimmer has received a number of awards, including the 2007 National Academies Communication Award, a prize for science communication from the United States National Academy of Sciences, for his wide-ranging coverage of biology and evolution in newspapers, magazines, and his blog.

In 2016 Yale University appointed Carl Zimmer Adjunct Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, stating that he is "a world-renowned science journalist and teacher, and his ability to make science, particularly biology, accessible to the general public is without peer".

Carl Zimmer has taught a science communication course at Yale since 2017 and participates in other molecular biophysics and biochemistry courses.