Eliza Strickland

I am a senior associate editor for IEEE Spectrum, the magazine and website for technology insiders. I cover the biomedical engineering beat, and recently managed Spectrum’s special report: “Hacking the Human OS.” I write about the new technologies enabling personalized medicine, such as mobile health tools, machines that sequence genomes on the cheap, and the implantable devices that may eventually turn us all into happy cyborgs. My current passion is reporting on neural modulation techniques that researchers are using to tweak patients’ movements, moods, and memories. This year at SXSW Interactive I moderated a panel discussion on “DIY brain hacking.”

I sometimes freelance for publications such as Nautilus and Sierra.