Ivan Farkas is a Contributing Journalist at ScienceAlert. Ivan has been writing for a diverse range of audiences for 15 years. He loves learning about as many things as possible and has written about almost every major subject that ends in ‘ology’, plus a few that don’t. Ivan has an academic background in exercise science, nutrition, and sports medicine.

After university, Ivan began writing hundreds of fact-based comedy articles. It took him months of trial and error to sell his first piece of content, and he celebrated by buying candy.

He’s since had an extensive career as a writer, creating tech-and-medical marketing materials, innumerable listicles, press releases for global brands, SEO short-forms, industry insights for manufacturers, magazine articles, and countless copywriting projects.

Ivan is especially interested in psychedelic space discoveries, nature, the deep past, and surprisingly strange science stories, like how avocados have sex.