Timothy W. Schwanitz majored in English and Entomology at Rutgers University, where he completed an English honors thesis on the relationship between science and American Transcendentalist literature. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Neuroscience in the lab of Lindy McBride at Princeton University. His project investigates a key component of the genetic and neuronal basis for attraction to human beings in the mosquito Aedes aegypti. He is interested in anything insect related, especially insect neurobiology.