Hiya Jain

Hiya Jain leads editorial and press for the Analogue Group and works on metascience experiments with the Office of Inquiry. She also writes about the history of science, public health, and metascience on her Substack, Mundane Beauty. Her recent essays have traced the rise and decline of India’s statistical infrastructure, the German capture of Britain’s synthetic dye industry, and the workings of wartime American science. She is a non-resident fellow at the Roots of Progress Institute and holds degrees in History and Neuroscience from Barnard College, Columbia University (where her thesis examined the role of aesthetics in mathematical research).