Lee R. Berger, a National Geographic Society explorer-in-residence, is the Research Professor in Human Origins and the Public Understanding of Science at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was a founder of the Palaeoanthropological Scientific Trust, the largest nonprofit organization in Africa supporting research into human origins. He is the director of one of the largest paleontological projects in history, leading over 100 researchers in investigations of the Malapa site in South Africa. He has authored more than 200 scholarly and popular works. His research has been featured three times on the cover of Science magazine and has been named among the top 100 science stories of the year by Time, Scientific American, and Discover. He has appeared in television documentaries on subjects related to archaeology, paleoanthropology, and natural history, as well as on NPR’s Talk of the Nation, Morning Edition, and All Things Considered, and PBS’s News Hour and Alan Alda’s Scientific American Frontiers. He was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential People of 2015 and 2016’s Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year. |
