Mun Keat Looi

International Features Editor
The BMJ

Mun Keat Looi is International Features Editor at The BMJ (British Medical Journal) and a journalism lecturer at Imperial College London.

An author of two books, ‘Big Questions in Science: The quest to solve the great unknowns‘ (2013) and the Geek Guide to Life 2016), he was awarded the silver Rising Star Award at the 2015 British Media Awards and has written and produced news, features, podcasts, and videos for Quartz, The Guardian, BBC Focus, Chemistry World and others. He was the science editor and fact-checker for acclaimed book Spike (2021) by Jeremy Farrar and Anjana Ahuja, and the author of the Association of British Science Writers’ ‘How to become a science writer‘ guide. In previous lives, he was Commissioning Editor for the award-winning longform magazine Mosaic, and headed up social media strategy for the global health foundation Wellcome Trust.