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Matthew Cobb

Matthew Cobb is a professor of zoology at the University of Manchester, where his research focuses on the sense of smell, insect behaviour and the history of science. He is also a reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement, and has translated five books on popular science and science history from French into English. He is currently writing a history of genetic engineering since the mid-twentieth century, looking at what were once alarmist fantasies and showing how they may be becoming reality (to be published by Profile in the UK in 2022).

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