Lewis Dartnell

Lewis Ryan Dartnell (born 21 November 1980)[1] is a British astrobiologist, presenter, and professor of science communication at the University of Westminster.

His works of popular science include The Knowledge: How to Rebuild our World from Scratch[2] and Origins, which looks at how geology has impacted human history.

[3] Dartnell was born in the UK, but spent much of his childhood years abroad, as his father was posted overseas while working as an engineer for British Airways.

[6] Dartnell was a UK Space Agency research fellow[7] at the University of Leicester, where his research focused on the study of extremophile microbes and their signs of past or present life, including the use of Raman spectroscopy to detect micro-organisms even after they have been damaged by exposure to very high levels of radiation.

[2] Riichiro Inagaki, Tokyo-based author of the manga series Dr. Stone, references a Japanese translation of Dartnell's book The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilisation in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm as a consulted work.