The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science is excited to welcome Dyna Rochmyaningsih as Journalist in Residence from September to October 2025!

Dyna Rochmyaningsih is a freelance science journalist whose works have appeared in Science Magazine, Nature, Mongabay, The Christian Science Monitor, Undark, Sapiens, BBC Future, bioGraphic, and other outlets. From her home in rural Sumatra, Indonesia, she has written stories at the intersection of science and society in Indonesia, the Global South, and the Islamic World.

She also received support from National Geographic, the International Women’s Media Foundation, and Pulitzer’s Rainforest Journalism Fund, for her reporting on the environmental crisis in Indonesia. She led the Society of Indonesian Science Journalists (SISJ) 2020-2023 and was named as a Knight Science Journalism (KSJ) fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT (2023/2024). 

During her time at the MPIWG she will be based in Department “Knowledge Systems and Collective Life,” where she will work on her project “Navigating the Truth in The Age of Science Suppression,” in which she will explore alternative sources of knowledge in environmental reporting, as well as delivering a practical journalism training workshop to MPIWG members.