NATHAN WALWORTH, PhD
Dr. Nathan Walworth is an entrepreneurial climate scientist and futurist whose work lies at the intersection of tech for good, exponential tech, carbon removal, regeneration, culture prediction, experience design, DNA sequencing, and the marine microbiome. Nathan is a serial social entrepreneur whose environmental research has taken him from the tropics to Antarctica.
Nathan is currently the Vice President of Science Strategy at Project Vesta: a public benefit corporation on a mission to scale nature-based strategies in gigaton carbon removal using the power of the oceans. He is also an Adjunct Scientist at the J. Craig Venter Institute where he works with biotechnologists and synthetic biologists on the genetic regulation of microbes to develop experimental tools for medical and environmental research.
Nathan is also the Co-founder of the NEXUS Futurism Group: a platform designed to convene leaders across industry to guide the ethical advancement in rapidly emerging technologies. He is also Co-founder of the NEXUS Impact Accelerator where he helps to accelerate companies across diverse UN SDG verticals including circular manufacturing, coral farming, machine learning, biotechnology, social equity tech, and robotics.
He is an Adjunct Professor of Regenerative Studies and also serves on the Advisory Board for the AI-driven culture prediction company, sparks & honey, where he blends cultural signals with his business and scientific background to advise companies on future cultural trends.
Nathan earned his PhD in Microbiology and Biogeochemistry from the University of Southern California. He earned his M.Sc. in Molecular Ecology from Lund University in Sweden. He earned his B.Sc. in Marine Biology and Microbiology from the University of California, Santa Cruz.