Andrei IonescuAndrei Ionescu is a Staff Writer at Earth: Nature, Science, Life (www.earth.com). He holds a PhD from the University of Padua, Italy, and conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Bucharest, Romania, Ghent University, Belgium, and Pincess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Saudi Arabia. Ionescu's areas of research include cognitive and medical humanities, posthumanism, animal studies, and ecocriticism. Read More Read Less