Author

Elizabeth Rosa Landau is an award-winning journalist, filmmaker, and science communicator in Washington, DC. As a senior editor at National Geographic, she oversees coverage of animals and contributes articles about space and other topics. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, WIRED, Smithsonian, Scientific American, Undark, Quanta, and other publications. She served as the most recent president of the DC Science Writers Association and has spoken about space exploration at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival, Dragon Con, and events at numerous science museums and schools. From 2014 to 2025, she worked as a contractor at NASA, most recently as the multimedia lead for astrophysics at NASA Headquarters. She directed the NASA documentary “Listen to the Universe,” about creating sound experiences from space data, which won several film–festival accolades. Her website: lizlandau.com