Biologist, Professor, and Science Communicator. Director of the Center for Science Communication & Public Engagement (SCOPE); Teaching Professor of BioSciences at Rice University; Research Collaborator at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History; Author of “Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds” (MIT Press) & "Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution" (Yale University Press).