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Biography
Nadja Oertelt is an American science media producer and CEO of Massive Science. She is known for her work as a science communicator.
Education
Oertelt graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied neuroscience, in 2007.
Career
Oertelt is the co-founder and CEO of Massive Science, a science media website. She works to train scientists to communicate more clearly with the public about science. Before becoming CEO, Oertelt was the chief content officer.
Prior to founding Massive Science, Oertelt produced science videos for outlets like Mashable, Vice, BuzzFeed, and Vox. She publicly shared her frustration after being laid off from Mashable during mass layoffs in 2016.
Oertelt produced the The Fundamentals of Neuroscience, one of the first MOOCs, for Harvard University. Oertelt also co-directed and co-produced Unorthodox, a documentary about Modern Orthodox Jewish culture, with Anna Wexler, now a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Oertelt is also involved with TEDMED. In 2017, she gave a talk at the TEDMED conference about her work on science literacy. She was part of the editorial advisory board for the 2018 and 2020 conferences.