Veronika Meduna CF is a scientist, science journalist and broadcaster who was the founding New Zealand editor of The Conversation.
Between 1988 and 1990, she was a research assistant at the University of Konstanz in the "Microbial Ecology Working Group" and subsequently, until 1992, as a scientist at the Konstanz-based Bio System GmbH.
She joined Radio New Zealand in 1999 as a science reporter covering the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification before hosting Our Changing World.
She left RNZ in 2016[2] as part of a major restructure at the broadcaster and worked as a freelance journalist before joining The Conversation in May 2017.
[5] In 2021, Meduna was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to travel to Micronesia, Melanesia and Australia, to carry out research for a book on the settlement of the Pacific.