Florian Fisch is a science editor for biology and medicine at the Swiss National Science Foundation. He studied biology at the universities of Lausanne and Neuchâtel, did research work at the Botanical Institute in Basel and obtained his PhD in biochemistry at the University of York (UK). As a freelance journalist, he has contributed articles to the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ), NZZ am Sonntag, Laborjournal and other media outlets.