Hi, I'm Athena Aktipis, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University, Director of the Cooperative Futures Instititute, The Interdisciplinary Cooperation Initiative, and the The Cooperation Lab at ASU. I am also co-Director of The Cooperation Science Network and The Human Generosity Project. I study cooperation across systems from human sharing to cancer. I'm also the founder of Zombified Media and the host of the podcast, Zombified. When COVID-19 was on the verge of becoming a pandemic, I started the Cooperation in the Apocalypse project to better understand how crises affect cooperation, interdependence and other social behaviors.

I am the author of two books, A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A mostly serious guide to surviving our wild times and The Cheating Cell: How evolution helps us understand and treat cancer. I also author a Substack titled Not For Peer Review where I share my thoughts on topics from AI to the origins of life.