Mariette DiChristina

Mariette DiChristina is an American science journalist and academic administrator. She is dean of the Boston University College of Communication, where she is also a professor of journalism. She was editor-in-chief of Scientific American from December 2009 to September 2019, becoming the first woman to hold that role since its founding in 1845. She was executive vice president of Springer Nature, overseeing the editorial and publishing operations of Scientific American and Nature with more than 160 staff members in ten countries.