Rowan Hooper

Rowan Hooper is podcast editor at New Scientist and host of New Scientist's hit podcast The World, the Universe and Us. He has a PhD in evolutionary biology and worked in a conservation biology lab in Japan for five years, before joining The Japan Times in Tokyo and later taking up a fellowship in a physics lab at Trinity College Dublin. As well as New Scientist, his writing has appeared in The Economist, The Guardian, Wired, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. His latest book is Togetherness: Symbiosis and the Hidden Story of Life's Greatest Collaborations.