Mark Fischetti

Technical Team Manager
Scientific American
Mark Fischetti is an editor at Scientific American magazine and oversees its energy and environmental coverage. He is a veteran journalist who has written freelance for The New York Times, Smithsonian, Sports Illustrated, Fast Company and many other publications. He co-wrote Weaving the Web (HarperCollins, 1999) with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-wrote The New Killer Diseases (Crown, 2003) with Boston University microbiologist Elinor Levy (and since then finds himself washing his hands much more frequently). Mark has been the managing editor of IEEE Spectrum magazine, and was founding managing editor of Family Business magazine. His 2001 article, Drowning New Orleans, in Scientific American predicted the widespread disaster that a monster storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose, and described comprehensive projects that would save the city and the Mississippi delta. After Katrina hit in 2005 he appeared as an expert on CNN, NBC's Meet the Press with Tim Russert, the History Channel, NPR News, and international media. He published Protecting New Orleans in Scientific American's February 2006 issue, which presented engineering solutions to protect New Orleans and deltas worldwide from future storms.

Fischetti has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College in Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. He lives in Lenox, Massachusetts, where he started, runs and plays in a county-wide Over-40 soccer league.