About Timothy James Dimacali

Timothy James M. Dimacali is a science journalist, communicator, and fictionist. He received his MS in Science Writing from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a Fulbright scholarship and his BA English degree in Creative Writing from the University of the Philippines. He is also an alumnus of the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Workshop under the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination.

Dimacali is the founding editor of the GMA News Online Science and Technology Section, and currently heads the Science Communication Team of the University of the Philippines – Diliman College of Science. He is also a freelance writer and consultant whose clients have included USAID, the Philippine Department of Science and Technology, the Philippine National Academy of Science and Technology, the Probe Media Foundation, ABS-CBN News, Newsbytes.ph, Batobalani, and others.

His masters’ thesis, “From the Sea to the Stars: The Forgotten Journeys of the Philippines’ Ancient Explorers,” focused on ethnoastronomy and indigenous science, underscoring the interrelationship of science, technology, and society.