Merlin Sheldrake (b. 1987) is a British biologist, writer, and lecturer. He received his doctorate in Tropical Ecology from Cambridge University for his dissertation on underground fungal networks in tropical forests in Panama. His most recent publications include “Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds, Change our Minds and Shape our Futures” (2020). Sheldrake’s research ranges from fungal biology, to the history of Amazonian ethnobotany, to the relationship between sound and form in resonant systems.