Liz Heinecke is the Kitchen Pantry Scientist. She’s made it her mission to show the world that anyone can be a scientist and that kids from three to ninety-three can have fun playing with science at home. After working in academic molecular biology research labs for ten years and getting a master’s degree in bacteriology at UW Madison, Liz started doing science with her three kids, journaling their experiments and adventures on KitchenPantryScientist.com. She appears regularly on WCCO (CBS) and Twin Cities Live (ABC), and frequently appears and does science with kids at library programs, Scout meetings, and STEM, STEAM and tech festivals. She has published a number of practical kids books on STEM:
Kitchen Science Lab for Kids (Quarry, 2014)
Outdoor Science Lab for Kids (Quarry, 2016)
STEAM Lab for Kids (Quarry, 2018)
Star Wars Maker Lab (DK Children’s, 2018)
Kitchen Science Lab for Kids: Edible Edition (Quarry, 2019)
The Kitchen Pantry Scientist’s Guide to Chemistry (Quarry, 2020)
The Kitchen Pantry Scientist’s Guide to Biology (Quarry, 2021)
Her adult narrative nonfiction debut, Radiant: A Dancer, A Scientist, and a Friendship Forged in Light is forthcoming from Grand Central in February 2021.
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