Anil Ananthaswamy is an Indian author, and science journalist, who is currently a Knight Science Journalism Research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He has been a deputy news editor and staff writer for the London-based New Scientist science magazine.

He is also a contributor to the science writing program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is affiliated to the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore.

He is a guest contributor on Science and Physics for New Scientist, Quanta, Scientific American, PNS Front Matter, Nature, Nautilus, Matter, The Wall Street Journal, Discover, and the UK's Literary Review.

[6] He received this award for his feature in the March issue of the New Scientist, Hip Hip Array, which details the plans to build the Square Kilometre Array, an ambitious radio telescope with receiver dishes covering a square kilometer in area.