Christian Sardet, PhD, is the founder of and emeritus researcher at the DevelopmentalBiology Laboratory at the Institut de la Mer de Villefranche (IMEV), under the aegis of the CentreNational de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Paris-Sorbonne University. He earned his PhD in comparative biochemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of many scientific publications and of the book Plankton: Wonders of the Drifting World (University of Chicago Press,2015). Sardet is the recipient of the Grand Prix des Sciences de la Mer from the French Academy ofSciences and the Légion d’Honneur, among many other awards. He is also an artist and the creator ofmany award-winning films. Sardet lives in the South of France, outside Nice.