Sarah Rugheimer is an astrophysicist and Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She earned her PhD in Astrophysics at Harvard University. A passionate advocate for engaging the public in science, she has received the Barrie Jones Award from the Astrobiology Society of Britain, the Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship, and the British Science Association Rosalind Franklin Award Lectureship. Her TED Talk “The Search for Microscopic Aliens” has received nearly 2 million views.