Alex Blasdel is a longform journalist whose writing on science and the world of ideas appears frequently in The Guardian. Several of his pieces have been featured in the paper’s Best of the Long Read and syndicated internationally. He received a 2022 Robert Silvers Grant for “The Dark Universe,” his profile of a cosmologist trying to solve one of the universe’s great mysteries while battling long Covid. He also writes for the Times Literary Supplement and Literary Review.

Alex has been the managing editor of Logic, a magazine about the intersection of technology and ideas; a commissioning editor for the Guardian’s Long Read series and for its US opinion coverage; a senior editor at The Caravan, a journal of Indian politics and culture; and an assistant editor at Literary Review.

Before becoming a journalist, Alex worked as a program manager for the head of the Research Department of Clinical Psychology at University College London, where he received an MSc in psychoanalytic theory and wrote a thesis on how beliefs about the self and the world are embodied. He also attended Deep Springs College and has a B.A. in Classics from the University of Oxford (Balliol College).