Career
He has published two books (Illuminating Disease (2015) and Glowing Genes (2005)), written articles on science and medicine for the Los Angeles Times, United States of America Today, the Huffington Post, etc and has been interviewed and quoted in the Economist, Science, Nature et cetera Zimmer curates the GFP website and he has published over 60 research papers about cow flatulence, computational chemistry and bioluminescence in fireflies and jellyfish. Zimmer is the initiator and director of the Connecticut College Science Leaders program, a program to increase the number of women and minority students graduating from the College with a degree and research experience in the sciences.