Ivan Amato Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

Independent writer, editor and communicator for many venues, including Time, Fortune, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Nautilus, Quanta, Knowable, President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), Photonics Focus, Last Word on Nothing, Baltimore Sun, San Francisco Examiner, Scientific American, Science, Nature, Science News.

New York, New York, United States

Chronicle, share and promote multifaceted story of world-class neuroscience institute via scores of stories, profiles, press releases, image-drive pieces, social-media posts and other channels of communications. Raise profile of the Zuckerman Institute within larger Columbia University community as well as external local, national and international.

Alexandria, VA

Worked at DARPA in two two tours of duty. Wrote press releases, articles, explainers, social media posts, congressional testimony, historical accounts and other content for the agency's website; conducted media relations to bolster the agency's brand; created and produced agency's first-ever podcast (Voices from DARPA), which chronicled the challenges and.

Medium.com

Created a year-long online magazine, The Moonshot Catalog, within the context of a temporary, philanthropy-funded project at the America Association for the Advancement of Science. Magazine features 16 stories about big problems and challenges that if solved or realized would do a lot of good for a lot of people.

Busboys And Poets, Washington, D.C.

In parternship with the DC Science Writers Association and with support from Busboys and Poets, a restaurant and cultural events venue in Washington, DC, I ran a quasi-monthly forum for discussions between the public and those who participate in, observe, manage or otherwise engage the science and technology communities. The strategic idea behind the forum.

Santa Barbara/Goleta, California

For three months of 2014, I had the privilege of participating at the Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics (at the University of California, Santa Barbara) as a journalist in residence.

I wrote about science and technology, in print and on-line, for the magazine Chemical & Engineering News. And for several years, I helped oversee every aspect of this weekly magazine's production from story ideas to the final printed magazine.

I helped orchestrate the creation of a major science news magazine each week, from the conceptions of stories through to the printed stories.

I wrote on a wide variety of molecular science topics for ACS's weekly news magazine, Chemical & Engineering News

I edited the science stories that together became, each week, a great little magazine called Science News.

I wrote a script for the Chemistry show of the Science Channel's 100 Great Discoveries. Bill Nye was the narrator.

I reported stories and produced them for broadcast on NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and several other NPR shows.

I was a civilian employee of the navy hired to write an institutional history of the Naval Research Laboratory. The book is titled Pushing the Horizon: 75 Years of High Stakes Science at the Naval Research Laboratory.

I wrote speeches, articles and op-ed pieces, brochures about research and development, among other duties at one of the premier organizations in the federal R&D infrastructure.

I wrote articles on a weekly basis for one of the world's most important and prestigious magazines containing both news and primary research reports.

M.A., History And Philosophy Of Science

Activities and Societies: I played ultimate frisbee, home brewed beer, and wrote for the school newspaper.

B,A,, Chemistry And Philosophy

Activities and Societies: I played ultimate frisbee, worked in laboratories, biked everywhere, played my piano.

High School, College Preparation

Activities and Societies: Cross country and track and field teams.