Jane Qiu (Chinese: 邱瑾; pinyin: Qiū Jǐn) is an independent science journalist based in Beijing, primarily focusing on geoscience and the environment.
Qiu earned first-class honours in biology from the University of Essex in 1993.
[3] Qiu earned a silver medal in the 2016 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards, in the magazine writing category, for three stories in Nature on prediction and warning systems for earthquake-triggered landslides in Nepal, Chinese fossil hominids, and the interlinked ecological and social effects of climate change on the grasslands of Tibet.
[6] Another of her stories, on ancient ice preserved in Tibet, won the 2017 Outstanding Enterprise Reporting award of the South Asian Journalists Association.
[7] She is a two-time winner of the EGU Science Journalism Fellowship of the European Geosciences Union,[8] and has been a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.