Donato Giovannelli is an assistant professor at the
University of Naples “Federico II.” He travels to acid lakes and
other extreme environments that are the closest thing today to what
Earth was like when life began.
A series of live conversations between writer Carl Zimmer and eight leading thinkers on the question of what it means to be alive. What Is Life? was recorded in front of a live audience at Caveat in New York and is supported by a grant from Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation initiative.