Luke O'Neill is professor of biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin. One of the world's foremost experts in immunology, he became the first Irish biologist in more than 50 years to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, in 2016. He has been awarded the Royal Dublin Society's Robert Boyle Medal for scientific excellence, the Royal Irish Academy's Gold Medal for Life Sciences and has lectured for the Nobel Committee. His latest book, Never Mind the B*llcks, Here's the Science won the An Post Irish Book Award for Non Fiction in 2020.