Tom Zeller Jr.
Journalist and magazine editor
Tom Zeller Jr. is an American journalist and editor in chief of the science magazine Undark. He wrote The Headache, a book on the science of headaches.
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American Born 1969 in Cleveland, United States
About Tom Zeller Jr.
Tom Zeller Jr. is an American journalist who has covered technology, energy policy, climate and the environment. He worked as a reporter, editor and columnist at The New York Times. He also worked at The Huffington Post and National Geographic Magazine. Zeller was born in northeastern Ohio and studied at Cleveland State University before earning a master's degree at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He held a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2013. Together with Deborah Blum, he co-founded Undark, a digital science magazine, and he serves as its editor in chief. In 2022 he co-edited A Tactical Guide to Science Journalism for Oxford University Press. His debut book, The Headache, appeared in 2025. It blends memoir with scientific investigation as he searches for the source of his own headaches and explores the nervous system and the nature of pain. He lives in Montana with his wife.