Stephen Battersby is a freelance science journalist who has been a News & Views editor at Nature and the features editor at New Scientist, where he has also served as an editorial consultant.[1] He earned his bachelor's degree in physics from Oxford University, and his PhD in astrophysics from Imperial College London.[2]
In 2015, Battersby received the Jonathan Eberhart Planetary Sciences Journalism Award for an article on methane tides on Titan, Saturn's largest moon.[2]