 Anad Singh is a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. From 2013 to 2018, she was also a Nils Bohr professor at Aarhus University, where she co-directed the research project Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene. Professor Singh has published over 100 articles in leading international journals and has written several award-winning books, most recently her 2015 book The Mushroom at the End of the World on the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins. I'm a social and cultural anthropologist and that means that as in the humanities we ask big questions about humankind and as in the sciences we are grounded in empirical research. I haven't found what I'm looking for yet. Well recently I did a study of a gourmet wild mushroom called Matsutake and perhaps one of the innovations in it was bringing together social histories, histories of people and natural histories, the histories of forests and fungi and how these came together. The book I wrote called The Mushroom at the End of the World on the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins talks about how even under certain kinds of conditions of human disturbance, perhaps the kinds that we associate with the whole of seeing, many kinds of life can emerge together. Between 2013 and 2018, Nils Bohrbant and I co-directed a program called Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene or Aura. And the thing has been a real gift to Aarhus University. She has a unique ability to think with, to open up spaces for collaborative thinking with others and it's a gift that she brings both to her supervision and teaching. It is also something she brings to collaboration with the natural sciences and with the arts and allows her to combine social science, artistic thinking and a natural science perspective into one common vision for rethinking what the world might look like in a time when the environment and climate is disrupting the world as we used to know it.