Konstantin Kakaes is deputy technology and cybersecurity editor for POLITICO.<br/><br/>He got his start in journalism in 2002, writing about science and technology for The Economist, for which he was later Mexico City Bureau Chief, covering Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean from 2005 to 2009.<br/><br/>During the 2009-10 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the fall of 2010, he was a fellow of the International Reporting Project of Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. He was a fellow at the New America Foundation from 2011 to 2018 and was the 2019 journalist-in-residence at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley.<br/><br/>More recently, he was an editor for MIT Technology Review, where his work contributed to two National Magazine Award nominations.<br/><br/>He grew up outside Washington, D.C., and graduated from Harvard University with a degree in physics.<br/><br/>Kakaes is the author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pioneer-Detectives-distant-spacecraft-Einstein-ebook/dp/B00DV5SERW">The Pioneer Detectives</a>, a nonfiction scientific mystery story.<br/><br/>He tweets, as infrequently as possible, <a href="https://twitter.com/kkakaes?lang=en">@kkakaes</a>.