Matin Durrani has been Editor of Physics World since March 2006, having originally joined the magazine in 1994. He studied chemical physics at Bristol University before doing a PhD in polymer science at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University. After a two-year spell as a postdoc at the Cavendish, he took the plunge into science journalism. As a magazine and website editor, he's seen at first hand how scientific blogs are challenging conventional science journalism.