Hi, I'm Athena Aktipis, Director of the Cooperative Futures Institute and Psychology Professor at Arizona State University. I study cooperation across systems, from cells to societies. Ranked in top 1% of scientists, according to Elsevier's standardized citation database.

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.