Eric is the European news editor for Science magazine in Cambridge, U.K., following roles as Science's physical sciences editor and its Earth and planetary science reporter in Washington D.C. Before Science, he was the astrophysics reporter and Washington DC bureau chief for Nature magazine. He has also worked at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, and the Portland Oregonian. He studied civil engineering and geology at Princeton University, and earned master's degrees in geography and geophysics at the University of Cambridge and Stanford University, respectively. In 2010, he was a Knight fellow at MIT.