Max Kozlov

I'm an award-winning science journalist at Nature
who writes about biomedical science.
 You can also find my work in The Atlantic, Quanta Magazine, Science, and The St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

about

As a kid, I was dead set on one day becoming the next famous meteorologist or pharmacist.I was fascinated by trips to the Museum of Science in Boston, where I could pretend to be a scientist even though I couldn't speak English well, as my entire family moved to the Boston area from Ukraine a few years before I was born. Admittedly, I'm obsessed with my babushka’s borscht.All through high school and into college, I worked at the Museum of Science teaching science in the very same exhibit I once visited as a kid. My favorite part of the job: putting on a giant bee costume to teach young visitors how bees make honey.I studied cognitive neuroscience at Brown University. After graduating, I was awarded a AAAS Mass Media Fellowship, where I covered science at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.Today, I write for Nature as a life-sciences reporter. I received the 2025 Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for my stories about Trump 2.0.My work has also appeared in The Atlantic, Quanta Magazine, The Scientist, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Behavioral Scientist, and RI Public Radio.To this day, I'm still fascinated by the weather and medicine and, who knows, hopefully I'm making childhood Max proud by writing about science.

selected highlights

last updated July 2024
Check out my full list of stories for Nature here.

media

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