My name is Simon Hadlington. I have been writing about science, technology, engineering, medicine and the environment for the past 20 years or so.

After graduating from the University of London with an honours degree in biochemistry, I worked briefly as an editorial assistant on the Journal of General Microbiology. I then joined the East Anglian Daily Times in Suffolk, one of the country's major regional morning newspapers, as a trainee reporter.

I left the EADT after qualifying as a senior journalist to join the news desk of Nature under the legendary editor John (later Sir John) Maddox.

In 1988 I went freelance and have since written for many of the national broadsheets as well as numerous magazines and specialist publications.

My work falls into three broad categories: writing, editing, training.