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Anjana Ahuja
Since Winning the EMMA Award
Anjana Ahuja is a British Science Journalist and Former Columnist who served as a judge for The Aventis Prizes for Science Books and sat on the committees on public awareness of science for both the Royal Society and the British Council.
Anjana was also on the British Association for the Advancement of Science editorial committee, which was renamed the British Science Association. Between 1998 and 2002, Anjana gave a series of lectures for the Royal Institution, highlighting the research of young scientists. Anjana later co-wrote the 2010 book Selected with Professor Mark van Vugt, highlighting human leadership’s evolutionary origins.
In 2012, Anjana edited Light Reading, an anthology of science writing inspired by Diamond Light Source, the UK’s national synchrotron facility. In September of that same year, Anjana was awarded an Honorary Fellowship from the British Science Association, alongside Professors Brian Cox, Lord John Krebs, and Lisa Jardine.
Anjana co-authored the 2021 bestselling book Spike: The Virus Vs The People with Sir Jeremy Farrar, which was based on the inside story of the COVID-19 pandemic. It became The Times’ science book of 2021 and was shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book of the Year and the George Orwell Prize for Political Writing in 2022.
Background (Before 1998)
Born in London to a Punjabi Hindu family, Anjana Ahuja studied physics at Imperial College London and then gained a PhD in space physics. During that time, she worked on data about the Sun’s magnetic field from the Ulysses probe.
The Times later hired Anjana as a graduate trainee journalist and wrote their weekly Science Notebook column, alongside being a regular feature writer.
Anjana’s articles have been twice nominated for the Association of British Science Writers awards, and her column covers all areas of science, medicine, and technology.
