Shalma Wegsman is a science writer and multimedia science communicator. She's currently the writing fellow at Quanta Magazine. She also co-hosts, edits, and produces the podcast Why This Universe. Previously she worked at Intercept Games as a physics game developer, where she developed and improved the physics simulations behind Kerbal Space Program 2. She has a Master's degree in physics from New York University, and has taught the undergraduate-level course Physics for Architects as a visiting instructor at the Pratt Institute, as well as Weird Science: The World of Quantum Mechanics at Columbia University's Pre-College program.
