István Scheuring is a senior research fellow at Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest and at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He studied physics and biology at Loránd Eötvös University (PhD in theoretical biology, 1994). His interests cover many different areas of theoretical biology, including ecology, the origins of life, and the evolution of cooperation and mutualism. Scheuring has been a visiting fellow at the Collegium Budapest in 1995 and at the Max Planck Institute of Complex Systems in Dresden, Germany 2006.