DR ROWAN HOOPER is a biologist and an award-winning journalist, writer and broadcaster. A senior editor at New Scientist magazine, he is the creator and host of New Scientist’s hit weekly podcast, The World, the Universe and Us. After gaining a PhD in evolutionary biology from the University of Sheffield, he moved to Japan and worked as a field biologist. He is the author of Superhuman: Life at the Extremes of Mental and Physical Ability, which was a Sunday Times Book of the Year, and How to Spend a Trillion Dollars. His articles have been published in New Scientist and the Japan Times as well as the Guardian, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, the Financial Times and the Economist. He lives in London with his partner and their two daughters.
