Menno Schilthuizen (1965) is a Dutch evolutionary biologist. He works as senior researcher at Naturalis Biodiversity Center- the Netherlands’ national natural history museum- and holds a professorship at Leiden University. Besides his academic work, Schilthuizen is active as a science communicator. He writes books for a general public, such as Nature’s Nether Regions (Penguin, 2014) on the evolution of genitalia. Also, he is a public speaker and frequently appears on radio and tv all over the world. Together with biologist Iva Njunjić, he set up Taxon Expeditions, which organises scientific expeditions for lay people with the aim of discovering new species of wildlife. His latest book, Darwin Comes to Town (Quercus, 2018) deals with the ways in which urban nature evolves to adapt to the world we create in our cities.