Harris A. Lewin is a Research Professor at Arizona State University and a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Evolution and Ecology at the University of California, Davis. Until July 2022, he held the Robert and Rosabel Osborne Endowed Chair and served as Distinguished Professor of Evolution and Ecology at UC Davis, with joint appointments in the Department of Reproduction and Population Health (School of Veterinary Medicine) and the John Muir Institute of the Environment. From 2011–2016 he was UC Davis’s Vice Chancellor for Research. Before joining UC Davis, Lewin spent 27 years at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he was the E.W. and J.M. Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Immunogenetics in the Department of Animal Sciences. He also directed the University of Illinois Biotechnology Center, founded and directed the W.M. Keck Center for Comparative and Functional Genomics and the Institute for Genomic Biology, and was a member of the Center for Advanced Study. Lewin’s research focuses on mammalian chromosome evolution and its links to adaptation, speciation, and the origins of cancer. In 2017, he co-founded the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP)—which aims to sequence all named eukaryotic species—and currently chairs the EBP Executive Council. His honors include election as a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry (2008), the Wolf Prize in Agriculture (2011), election to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences (2013), the Zhongguancun International Cooperation Award (2021), and the Explorers Club Lowell Thomas Award for Conservation Genetics (2022).