Ehsan Masood is the editor of Research Professional (which includes Research Fortnight and Research Europe magazines) and also teaches at Imperial College, London. Masood's recent book, Science and Islam: A History, was the official tie-in to a three-part documentary series on BBC Television presented by the award-winning Jim Al-Khalili, Professor of Physics at the University of Surrey. Most recently, Ehsan Masood presented "Science: Right or Left?" a program exploring political bias in science. He worked for many years as a writer and editor on the journal Nature. His forthcoming book, The Great Invention, is concerned with GDP and the advent of the age of big data.

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