Alex Blasdel is a longform journalist whose writing on science and ideas appears frequently in The Guardian. Before becoming a journalist, he worked for the head of the Research Department of Clinical Psychology at University College London, where he received an MSc in psychoanalytic theory. He also attended Deep Springs College and read Classics at Balliol College, Oxford. His first book, After Life, will be published by Crown in the US, by Allen Lane in the UK, and in eighteen other countries around the world.