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Ben Brubaker
Staff Writer, Quanta Magazine
Ben Brubaker is a New York City-based science journalist who covers theoretical computer science for Quanta Magazine. Before joining Quanta as a staff writer, he covered physics as a freelancer for publications including Scientific American and Physics Today. He holds a PhD in physics from Yale and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Colorado, Boulder.