Jeremy Webb is Editor-in-Chief of New Scientist with responsibility for both the magazine and website. Over his 18 years at New Scientist, he has worked in a variety of roles including nine years as Editor. Before joining New Scientist, Jeremy had a varied career writing news scripts for World Wide Television News, News Editor for British Medical Television and a reporter and editor for Pulse, the newspaper for UK family doctors. His media career began in the BBC where he worked as a sound engineer and producer of radio programmes, mostly about science, technology and medicine. He has a degree in physics with solid state electronics from the University of Exeter.