Bruce Damer

Astrobiologist Dr. Bruce Damer investigates the chemical and combinatorial mechanisms which may have originated life and their greater implications for evolutionary biology, technology, and culture, including philosophy and our sense of place in the cosmos. He serves as Chief Scientist at the BIOTA Institute, researcher at UC Santa Cruz, designer of spacecraft for NASA. He also has a lifelong interest in the sources of creative breakthroughs and in 2023 co-founded the Center for MINDS which investigates psychedelic and other practices in the quest for insights.