About

JV Chamary is a writer & Features Editor of BBC Focus magazine. Loves science & technology, comics & videogames, snowboarding & martial arts

So that was a Twitter-style summary of me in under 140 characters – let’s try 140 words…

Biography

My parents are from Mauritius, I was born in France and grew up in the UK.

A recovering academic, I studied biology at Imperial College London and evolutionary genetics at the University of Bath.

As the Features Editor of Focus, the BBC’s popular science magazine, I write, commission and edit articles.

Originally, I wanted to be a comic book artist – I produced a fanzine called Manganese and the comic strip Freakfighter.

I live in Bristol with my yucca plant and laptop computer.

IAQs

Infrequently asked questions (“yaks”) are things I wish people would ask more often…

How do you say your name?

“Chamary” is pronounced sha-ma-ree (sounds like champagne). Please don’t even attempt “Jean-Vincent” unless your French is better than ‘Allo ‘Allo. I prefer to be called by my nickname though, which is just “J”.

Do you do freelance work?

Yes, if the subject’s interesting, the fee’s fair and you pay promptly. Note that I can’t work for competitors to Focus (i.e. other popular science and tech magazines).

Contact

Send me an email, replacing ‘surname’ in the address to prove you aren’t a robot.