Carl Elliott Smith

Carl Smith is a Ph.D. candidate in digital journalism at the University of Queensland and a science journalist and presenter at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)’s Science Unit. Carl created the series ‘Pacific Scientific’ and ‘Strange Frontiers’ and has won a Walkley Award, a 2024 Covering Climate Now award, and jointly won the Eureka Prize for Science Journalism. He was also the co-editor of the Best Australian Science Writing anthology in 2024. In 2022, Carl was part of the Humboldt Foundation’s 5th Communication Lab. In 2025, Carl is taking extended leave to focus on his Ph.D., examining how non-spoken, non-music sonic elements can augment storytelling in science podcasts. Carl is trained as a geneticist with a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Journalism.

Carl Smith is participating in the Humboldt Residency Programme as an unpaid, independent journalist.