Holden Thorp
Editor In Chief, Science Magazine
Holden Thorp is the Editor-in-Chief of the Science family of journals. He came to Science from Washington University, where he was provost from 2013 to 2019 and professor from 2013 to 2023. Thorp earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from UNC and a doctorate in chemistry in 1989 at the California Institute of Technology. He holds an honorary doctor of laws degree from North Carolina Wesleyan College and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Inventors, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He serves on the scientific advisory boards of the Yale School of Medicine and the Underwriters’ Laboratories Research Institutes.
