Nathan E. Sanders is a data scientist, a physical scientist, a civic technologist, and an organizer in science communication. He is the co-author of the forthcoming book “Rewiring Democracy: How AI Will Transform Our Politics, Government, and Citizenship” written with Bruce Schneier. Nathan has been writing about science and technology since 2005 and his work has appeared in outlets including The New York Times, The Atlantic, Wired, Foreign Policy, and Linux Format magazine.

As a researcher, Nathan is currently an Affiliate of the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University. In application, he has built and led data science, ML, and AI teams across three industries: media and entertainment, biotech, and higher education. As an organizer, he co-founded the international conference series on science communication, ComSciCon, which has operated more than one hundred workshops for training and leadership development of graduate students across four continents. He also co-founded the graduate student-led science writing collaborative ScienceBites and its pioneering website, Astrobites, which has provided accessible coverage and context for more than 3,000 astrophysics research papers since it started in 2010. As a Berkman Klein Center Fellow in 2020, Nathan co-founded MAPLE, the Massachusetts Platform for Legislative Engagement, which makes it easy for Massachusetts residents to testify to the state legislature, as well as the Harvard Climate Justice Design Fellowship. He is an Associate Editor of the Harvard Data Science Review and a former member of the Board of Directors of the American Institute of Physics.

Nathan earned his undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University and his MS and Ph.D. in Astronomy and Astrophysics at Harvard University.