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Laboratorytalk and this Editor's Blog are edited by Russ Swan
Russ has edited Laboratorytalk since its launch in 2001. After an early career in civil engineering, he joined the trade journal Concrete as technical editor, later freelancing for a variety of trade and consumer magazines and newspapers. In the 1990s he co-founded a publishing company which launched three successful magazines covering highways, transportation networks, and structural engineering, and later joined the Institution of Chemical Engineers to edit The Chemical Engineer. He was among the first dozen employees of VerticalNet Europe, the spectacularly disastrous poster child of the first wave of internet publishing, in 2000. He has written for Private Eye, the Financial Times, and the Encyclopaedia Britannica, is a member of the Association of British Science Writers (ABSW), and in his spare time rides a 1200cc Suzuki.
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