Merlin Sheldrake
Mycologist and science writer
Merlin Sheldrake is a British mycologist who writes popular science about fungi, including Entangled Life.
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British Born 1987
About Merlin Sheldrake
Merlin Sheldrake was born in 1987 and is a British mycologist and writer. For his Cambridge University doctorate in tropical ecology, he studied fungal networks beneath the soil of tropical forests in Panama. During that research he held a predoctoral fellowship with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. He is a research associate at Vrije University, Amsterdam. He also serves on the advisory boards of the Fungi Foundation and the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks. He researches fungi and the history of Amazonian ethnobotany, and he is also a musician, brewer and fermenter. His book Entangled Life won the 2021 Wainwright Prize and has been translated into twenty languages. It is an international bestseller.