Dr. Alex Comfort is a physician, research biologist, writer, and currently Adjunct Professor at the Neuropsychiatric Institute at the University of California at Los Angeles. Educated at Trinity College Cambridge, where he was Robert Styring Scholar in Classics, he was for many years Head of the Medical Research Council Group on Ageing at University College, London. His publications include textbooks, literary and popular works, and more than two hundred scientific papers in biology, medicine, psychiatry, mathematics, and philosophy.
