Kaya Burgess is both Science Correspondent and Religious Affairs Correspondent at The Times of London.

He was shortlisted for Specialist Journalist of the Year at the 2024 Press Awards for his religion coverage and for Science Journalist of the Year at the 2025 Press Awards. He was also named Young Campaigning Journalist of the Year for the ‘Cities Fit for Cycling’ campaign at the MHP Awards and longlisted and commended by the Paul Foot Awards.

At The Times, Kaya has also been a General News Reporter, Deputy Diary Editor on the satirical TMS column, and has worked on the Time to Mind child mental health campaign, written for the Times2 features section, and been Commissioning Editor of the Eureka science iPad app.

He has written for the News, Foreign, Features, Arts, Business, Property, Sport, Science, Education and Technology sections of the paper.

Kaya speaks fluent French and Spanish and has reported from Ukraine, Malawi, Kenya, the United States, Spain, France, Russia, Switzerland, Greece, Denmark, and the Netherlands on various assignments. He has also undertaken Hostile Environment Training to B-Tech level.

He is also to be found performing in London folk clubs, filming and editing video dispatches, pointing telescopes at starry skies, and kicking footballs as captain of the (slightly erratic) Times football team.

Kaya is a former Parisian and Sevillian, member of the French Foreign Legion (for a week) and qualified gravedigger (seriously).

Please email: kaya[dot]burgess[at]thetimes.co.uk