Athena Aktipis

Christina Athena Aktipis is an associate professor in the department of psychology at Arizona State University. She is the director of the Interdisciplinary Cooperation Initiative and the co-director of the Human Generosity Project. She is also the director of the Cooperation and Conflict lab at Arizona State, vice president of the International Society for Evolution, Ecology and Cancer (ISEEC), and former director of human and social evolution and co-founder of the Center for Evolution and Cancer at UCSF. She is a cooperation theorist, an evolutionary biologist, an evolutionary psychologist, and a cancer biologist who works at the intersection of those fields. Aktipis is the author of the books ''The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer'' (2020) and ''A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times'' (2024). She hosts ''Zombified'', a podcast that discusses the science of zombification in daily life. The podcast is an extension of the Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Meeting (ZAMM), a biannual conference chaired by Aktipis. ZAMM is an interdisciplinary conference where art, science, and medicine come together with the aim of solving complex issues. Provided by Wikipedia