Charles Seife is professor of science, health, and environmental reporting at NYU. Before joining the Department of Journalism at NYU, Seife was writer for Science magazine, specializing in physics and mathematics, and had been a United States correspondent for New Scientist. Seife’s freelance work has appeared in The Economist, Scientific American, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and other publications. He is the author of several books, including Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (2000), which won the 2000 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction.