Veronika Meduna trained and worked as a scientist, working in the field of soil microbiology, before becoming a science journalist. A presenter and producer on Radio New Zealand's Our Changing World programme, she has told hundreds of science stories, as well as writing for the New Zealand Listener, New Zealand Geographic and Te Ara The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. In 2006 she co-curated an exhibition for the National Library of New Zealand about the history of science in New Zealand, which was subsequently published as Atoms, Dinosaurs and DNA: 68 Great New Zealand Scientists by Random House (2008), winning the Elsie Locke Award for non-fiction at the 2009 LIANZA awards. Meduna's work has earned her several awards and grants, including an appointment as Chevening David Low Fellow at Green College, Oxford University, in 2002. She lives in Wellington, but spent time visiting Antarctica in 2001 and 2006.