Julia Cort

NOVA Co-Executive Producer

Julia Cort, together with Co-Executive Producer Chris Schmidt, oversees the long-running PBS science series NOVA, produced by GBH. Since joining NOVA, Julia has contributed to more than two hundred films and digital videos, covering everything from quantum mechanics and neuroscience to climate change and space exploration. She has developed and overseen some of NOVA’s most popular episodes, mini-series, and digital content, including Your Brain, Great American Eclipse, Ice Age Footprints, Ultimate Space Telescope, The Cannabis Question, Polar Extremes, NOVA Wonders, and Antarctic Extremes. 

In her quest to make complex science engaging for all, Julia has traveled deep underground to investigate the hunt for dark matter, waded into leech-infested swamps, and attempted to re-create the technological feats of ancient engineers. Her work has been honored with the George Foster Peabody Award, the National Academies Keck Communication Award, the AAAS Science Journalism Award, the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award and the News & Documentary Emmy. Prior to coming to GBH and NOVA, Julia worked on the production teams of more than two dozen feature films and TV series, including Dirty Dancing and the original Hairspray.