Vivek Nityanand

Vivek Nityanand is trained as a biologist. A scientist and a science communicator, he is currently a BBSRC David Phillips Fellow at the Centre for Behaviour and Evolution and the Biosciences Institute at Newcastle University, UK. He has several publications in the fields of evolutionary biology, animal behaviour, and psychology. He is also an illustrator and has published short stories, including in Penguin India’s new writing anthology, First Proof 7. Beyond Doubt: Overconfidence and What It Means for Modern Society (2024) is his latest publication.