Nikolaos Papageorgiou holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Science. After a postdoc in cancer epigenetics, he worked in drug development before switching to medical and scientific writing. Currently, he works in science communications at EPFL in Switzerland, covering topics of physics, chemistry, and the life sciences. He runs The Upturned Microscope, a webcomic/satire blog about academic research. His novel, Lazarus, was published in 2012.