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Dr. Scott Solomon is Director of the Center for Science Communication and Public Engagement and Teaching Professor in BioSciences at Rice University. He is also a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. He has a Ph.D. in Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior from the University of Texas at Austin where his research examined the evolutionary basis of biological diversity in the Amazon Basin. He is the author of Becoming Martian: How Living in Space Will Change Our Bodies and Minds (MIT Press, 2026) and Future Humans: Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution (Yale University Press, 2016). He is the creator and host of the podcast Wild World with Scott Solomon. He co-wrote and co-produced the streaming series Becoming Martian (Curiosity Stream, 2021) and hosts educational trips to wild places around the world, including Belize, Tanzania, New Zealand, Galapagos, Iceland, and Antarctica. He is a Fellow of The Explorers Club, a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society, and the Society for the Study of Evolution.