Dr. Robert Aunger London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK

Robert Aunger is Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He has an interdisciplinary background, with graduate level training in economics, psychology and biology, including a PhD in biological anthropology from UCLA and postdoctoral experience at the University of Chicago and the... read moreUniversity of Cambridge. He has written a number of books including a popular science book on the transmission of knowledge called The Electric Meme (2002). He has taught at the University of Cambridge, the University of Chicago and Northwestern University.