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Nick Lane is a Professor of Evolutionary Biochemistry in the Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment at University College London, where he serves as the Director of the UCL Centre for Life’s Origins and Evolution (CLOE). He is a founding member of the UCL Consortium for Mitochondrial Research and his research focuses on the role of energy flow in shaping evolution, the origin of life, and the emergence of complex traits such as sex, death, and consciousness. Lane has authored over 130 papers in prominent journals including Nature, Science, Cell, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), and is known for his five books on energy and evolution, which include titles such as 'Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death'. His work has been recognized with multiple awards, including the 2010 Royal Society Prize for Science Books, the 2015 Biochemical Society Award, and the 2016 Royal Society Faraday Prize. Bill Gates has praised him as one of his favorite science writers.