Dr. Kelly Weinersmith

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Professor of BioSciences at Rice University; Co-Author of "A City on Mars" & "Soonish"

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Dr. Kelly Weinersmith Biography

Dr. Kelly Weinersmith is a pop-science author, scientist, and public speaker. Her pop-sci books, "Soonish" and "A City on Mars," both made the New York Times Bestsellers list. Her most recent book, "A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through?" won a Hugo in 2024 and was short-listed for the 2023 LA Times Book Prize in Science and Technology and the 2024 Royal Society Trivedi Book Prize.

Weinersmith is also an ecologist, who is particularly fascinated by parasites. Her research on parasites that manipulate the behavior of their hosts has been featured in The Atlantic, National Geographic, BBC World, Science, Nature, and more. Weinersmith is currently President of the Helminthological Society of Washington and Vice President of the American Society of Parasitologists, and holds positions an adjunct faculty member in Rice University's BioSciences Department and as a Research Associate at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.

Weinersmith loves giving public talks on topics like parasites, emerging technologies, and space settlements, and has been featured at Smithsonian magazine's Future Is Here Festival, various Google offices, the Royal Institution in London, and more.

Dr. Kelly Weinersmith Videos

  • Human Health and Performance Challenges for A City on Mars
    This session dives into the human health and performance challenges that a first crew to land on Mars may face based on insights from the book 'A...
  • Kelly Weinersmith asks: Are we ready to live off-planet?
    Dr. Kelly Weinersmith is the co-author (with her husband Zach) of Soonish and A City on Mars. Kelly maintains that while having humans living off...
  • H2M 2024 | A City on Mars: A Conversation with co-author Kelly Weinersmith
    The 2024 Humans to Mars Summit | A City on Mars: A Conversation with co-author Kelly Weinersmith Facilitator: Dr. Tiffany J. Vora (Explore Mars,...

Dr. Kelly Weinersmith Books

  • A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?
    A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?
  • Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything
    Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That Will Improve and/or Ruin Everything

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