Nathan Wolfe

Dr. Nathan Wolfe (he/him/his), [Subject and Scientific Consultant for The Catastrophist] is a virologist and entrepreneur. Until 2008 he was a (full) Professor in Epidemiology at UCLA, after which he founded Metabiota, a data analytics company focused on epidemic risk. He currently serves as the Chair of Metabiota and as an advisor to multiple technology companies. Wolfe received his doctorate in Immunology & Infectious Diseases from Harvard in 1998. He has been honored with a Fulbright fellowship and the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award. He is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. Wolfe has published over 100 scientific publications and his work has been published in or covered by Nature, Science, The New York Times, The Economist, NPR, The New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal, Wired and Forbes among others. His critically acclaimed book, The Viral Storm, has been published in six languages and was shortlisted in 2012 for the Royal Society’s Winton Prize. In 2011 he was named as one of the hundred most influential people in the world by Time magazine; Rolling Stone named him one of the “100 Agents of Change” in 2009; and Popular Science recognized him as one of their “Brilliant 10” in 2006.