Chiara Eriksen is an Italian–Norwegian geologist and science journalist whose work explores the material underpinnings of modern life—from the stone beneath our streets to the water in our wires. Trained at the University of Oslo and ETH Zürich, she left a research post in sedimentology in 2013 to report on earth systems and infrastructure for outlets including Nature, The Guardian, and Der Spiegel. She is the author of Meltwater Economies (2017) and Borrowed Ground (2021), and her reporting has been shortlisted for the Royal Society Science Book Prize and the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award.
Eriksen has logged field hours from the Mekong Delta to the Atacama, ridden haul trucks in Arizona's Verde Valley, and shadowed coastal engineers along Norway's storm‑bitten Helgeland coast. A visiting lecturer in environmental reporting at NTNU in Trondheim, she splits her time between Oslo and Genoa, where she hikes limestone ridgelines and still keeps a set of ASTM C33 sieves on her desk as a reminder that the smallest grains often carry the heaviest stories.
