Ariel Anbar is a scientist and educator interested in Earth’s past and future as an inhabited world, and the prospects for life beyond. His group develops novel geochemical methods to study topics ranging from the chemical evolution of the atmosphere and oceans to human disease. Dr. Anbar is a President’s Professor at Arizona State University on the faculty of the School of Earth & Space Exploration and the School of Molecular Sciences, and a Distinguished Global Futures Scientist in ASU’s Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory. Since 2015, Dr. Anbar has been directed ASU’s Center for Education Through Exploration. He led ASU's Astrobiology Program from 2009 – 2015. A graduate of Harvard and Caltech, Dr. Anbar was on the faculty of the University of Rochester until 2004, when he relocated to ASU. An author of >200 refereed papers, Dr. Anbar is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the Geological Society of America (GSA), the Geochemical Society and the European Association of Geochemistry, and is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor. He was President of AGU’s Biogeosciences Section from 2017 – 2019, and was invited to give the AGU’s Carl Sagan Lecture in 2022. He is a recipient of the GSA’s Donath Medal and the Arthur L. Day Medal.