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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 com­

bination of tough, open discussion with learned peers which

cut across all sciences, using both experimental and theoret­

ical tools, developing science education to make it accessible

to all, and fostering a few whacky blue skies ideas that prob­

ably won’t work, but might…

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