Tom Ireland is a freelance science journalist and award-winning magazine editor. As a freelance journalist he has written science stories for outlets including BBC News, "New Scientist" and "The Observer". He is the editor of The Biologist, the magazine of the Royal Society of Biology. In 2021 he won the Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction for The Good Virus.

The viruses that do us harm are vastly outnumbered by viruses that can actually save lives. These good viruses are called ‘phages’, and they are the most abundant life form on Earth. The Good Virus reveals how these weird and wonderful microbes shape our health, support our ecosystems and could be the future of medicine.

A Waterstones science book of the year.
A book of the year for "The Times and Sunday Times".
"New York Times" editor’s choice.
Winner of the Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction.