I have worked as a freelance science writer and editor since 1998. My specialist knowledge is in environmental science (especially climate change), evolution, ecology, agriculture and genetics.

I have contributed to New Scientist, Science magazine and BBC Wildlife magazine. I am a panellist on BBC Radio 4's Home Planet. In 1999 I won the BASF Daily Telegraph Young Science Writer of the Year Award.  I am a science writer and editor for the Economic and Social Research Council, the UK Environment Agency and the European Environment Agency. I also write and edit children's science books for Dorling Kindersley.

I have a PhD in the ecology of pollinating insects from Cambridge University, awarded in 2002.

I am helping develop the Conservation Evidence database, which collects scientific evidence on conservation management interventions. The aim is to make it easy for conservation managers across the world to base their practice on evidence, rather than assumption.

Lynn Dicks

Science writer and editor