He currently is a special projects writer, based in London. He joined the publication in 2016 as science and technology correspondent, writing about face recognition, tigers and the brain. In 2018 he was named Britain’s best science writer.

In 2019 he moved to Hong Kong to take up a new role as Asia technology correspondent. He returned to London during the pandemic to join the paper’s covid team, writing on the immune system, vaccine manufacturing and data science.

Before joining The Economist, Hodson worked at New Scientist in Boston. He graduated in 2010 from Trinity College Dublin with a degree in astrophysics. Hodson is the author of special reports on the ocean, technology in China and the pandemic.