Anurag Agrawal is a prolific ecologist and evolutionary scientist who teaches and conducts research at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He was born and raised in Pennsylvania, surrounded by fields of milkweeds and monarchs fluttering by. Anurag enjoys field work, scientific mysteries, plants of all kinds (especially succulents), and playing squash. Academically, Professor Agrawal has won numerous awards and accolades. He lives with his entomologist wife and two kids, Jasper and Anna.