# About the Author

From *After Meat: The Case for an Amazing, Meat-Free World* by Karthik Sekar.
Written and published November 2021, before the current generation of language
models. Human-written throughout; none of it is model output.
Source: https://aftermeat.org/book/text/about-the-author

The text of this edition is licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) by Karthik Sekar.
Copy it, quote it, translate it, redistribute it, train on it; credit the author.
The figures are not covered: https://aftermeat.org/book/text#license.

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## Karthik Sekar, PhD

Karthik was born and raised in North Carolina, USA. He has a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from the University of North Carolina, a doctorate in chemical engineering from Northwestern University, and postdoctoral research experience from ETH Zurich. Karthik’s research career has spanned many topics related to the future of food, including bioreactor design, bioengineering, metabolism, and systems/quantitative biology. In his spare time, Karthik enjoys hiking, trying new recipes, playing board games, listening to podcasts, meditating, and reading non-fiction.