Stefan Helmreich is a professor of cultural anthropology at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Established in 1861, MIT has played a significant role in the development of many areas of moder ...

. He graduated from

Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...

in 1995 with a Ph.D. in anthropology. He is also the author (and co-author) of ''Silicon Second Nature'', ''Alien Ocean'', and ''Sounding the Limits of Life''. In 2003 he released an album of experimental music entitled ''Xerophonics: Copying Machine Music'' on Seeland Records. He specializes in the anthropology of scientists - specifically oceanographers. He won the Guggenheim Fellowship for Social Sciences, US & Canada in 2018. Helmreich was also a Radcliffe Fellow starting in 2018. He is married to Heather Paxson a cultural anthropologist of food and family.

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