Niels Boeing studied physics in Aachen and Berlin. He has been working as a science journalist since 1997. He was an editor at the magazine "Die Woche" in Hamburg, among others. He is a freelance author and has been writing papers on issues like nanotechnology, internet, climate change, rapid manufacturing and robotics for Technology Review, Die Zeit, Greenpeace Magazine, Freitag and other media. Niels Boeing is the author of the book "Alles Nano?! Die Technik des 21. Jahrhunderts" and runs the information site nano.bitfaction.com