About the Author

Mark Leake is the Chair of Biological Physics, Coordinator of the Physics of Life Group and was the Founder-Director of the Biological Physical Sciences Institute (BPSI) and at the University of York, UK. He heads an interdisciplinary research team in the field of single-molecule biophysics using cutting-edge biophotonics and state-of-the-art genetics, and the UK’s Physics of Life network PoLNET. His work is highly cited, and he has won many fellowships and prizes. He holds the strong belief that science progresses best through a combination of tough, open discussion with learned peers which cut across all sciences, using both experimental and theoretical tools, developing science education to make it accessible to all, and fostering a few whacky blue skies ideas that probably won’t work, but might…