Giles was previously a journalist and CEO of Timeline, which published historical stories primarily focused on the topics of race, class, and gender and how they relate to today.
He has written about science, politics and the environment for The Atlantic,[1] The New York Times,[2] Nature,[3] New Scientist[4] and The Guardian.
In December 2005, he and colleagues published a story that compared the accuracy of science articles on English Wikipedia to those in Encyclopædia Britannica.
[10] In March 2012, Giles and fellow journalist Bobbie Johnson completed a successful Kickstarter campaign for Matter, a new science and technology publication.
Giles initially developed exhibitions at the Science Museum in London, joining Nature in 2001 as a news and features editor and becoming a reporter for the journal in 2003.