Merlin Sheldrake

Merlin Sheldrake is a biologist writer and speaker with a background in plant sciences microbiology ecology and the history and philosophy of science He received a PhD in tropical ecology from Cambridge University for his work on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama where he was a predoctoral research fellow of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute He is a research associate of the Vrije University Amsterdam works with the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks SPUN and sits on the advisory board of the Fungi Foundation Merlins research ranges from fungal biology to the history of Amazonian ethnobotany to the relationship between sound and form in resonant systems A keen brewer and fermenter he is fascinated by the relationships that arise between humans and morethanhuman organisms He is a musician and performs on the piano and accordion